Hello? Anyone remember Dresden or Tokyo?

The BBC has a story about (horrors!) some civilians getting killed in a bombing raid in Pakistan:

At least six civilians were among about 45 people reported killed in Pakistani military air strikes targeting militants in the north-west. Security officials said family members were among those who died in the raids in the Khyber tribal district. According to the officials, Pakistani jets and helicopters pounded targets in the Tirah valley from where suicide attacks were being prepared. It is hard to check the claims as the area is largely inaccessible to media.
But, according to unnamed officials, the military carried out several strikes which destroyed militant hideouts and vehicles that were being prepared for suicide attacks in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. A militant training centre and an illegal radio station were also said to have been hit in the region, which escaped the worst of the recent flooding that has devastated Pakistan.
Six civilians, including women and children, were killed in one of the strikes, Rehan Khattak, a senior government official in Khyber, told Reuters news agency. But a senior security official told AFP news agency that at least twelve civilians died.

Rico says these people have no idea what a real bombing raid looks like; any night of WW2, we would've flattened what little there is in NW Pakistan, then made the rubble bounch...