Drone strike kills four suspected militants in Pakistan

[sofa king]

6. There are only two things one needs to know.

One is that Osama bin Laden resided under the obvious protection of the Pakistani officer corps, only a couple hundred yards from that country's officer academy.

The other is that after Dick Cheney offended the Pakistanis on a Monday, someone had a suicide bomber waiting for his secret arrival at an airbase in Afghanistan on Tuesday.

That means that the Pakistanis revealed Cheney's itinerary to the "terrorists" almost as quickly as they themselves knew of it, and had an asset in place and ready before he even arrived. That's pretty much the definition of state-sponsored terrorism, even if Cheney was a military target.

It makes one wonder how independent of the Pakistanis the Taliban really is, and if it ever actually did operate outside of their oversight and control.