The Commander-in-Chief didn't do it

As Fi Fie Foe Fum points out in the context of pro-GWOT Irish blog commentary on the botched missile strike on Ayman al-Zawahiri in Pakistan, there's not much need for snark because the commentary speaks for itself. In that tradition, Wednesday's Wall Street Journal editorialises (subs. req'd):

It's still unclear if the operation killed any prominent Al Qaeda leaders, but the mission did reportedly kill Pakistani civilians. Of course, in this kind of war it's hard to know who is and isn't a non-combatant. General Musharraf has warned Pakistani citizens not to shelter terrorists, but then it's not easy to deny shelter to men with guns. If Islamabad stepped up its own efforts to root out militants along the Afghani border, the U.S. military might find it less necessary to enter Pakistani air space to seek them out.

Note by the way the upside of the assertion that al Qaeda fails to distinguish itself from civilians -- you get to dodge the Geneva Conventions on detainees and bomb the civilians! But cheer up Pakistan:

General Musharraf's government is working to give Pakistanis better opportunities through economic reform -- a trend noticed by stock market investors, who pushed the Karachi benchmark bourse up over 50% last year.

Miracalously, there is no claim that tax-cuts contributed to the stock market boom.