>> ^vaire2ube:

well the trick is eventually we dont tell the kids running the drones that its actually REALITY! Ahh! Ender's Game!
But by then the arabs formics will be gone.


The populations in Afghanistan and Pakistan are primarily Muslim, not Arab. There are in fact more Arabs living in America than there are in Afghanistan and Pakistan combined.

I know, not your point at all, but if you try and hash out the real news by reading through middle eastern news outlets you won't be able to make head from tails wondering why a pro-Arab outlet like Al Jazeera would willingly say anything bad about Iran. It's not until realizing that Iran is largely Persian and not Arab that it makes any sense.

I rant about this because it's crazily important and the details matter. American drone attacks have killed hundreds within Pakistan, but even by Pakistan's most anti-American media those people were largely militants responsible for killing Pakistani civilians. The Pakistani Taliban have meanwhile killed thousands of civilians, including former PM Benazir Bhutto, and there is infinitely more outrage and hatred for America's drones than for the Pakistani Taliban. It's something important to think about. What's more, there is MORE hatred in Pakistan over America's raid that killed Bin Laden than there is for the unmanned drone attacks. That's even more important to think about.

The reality is that the moderates in Pakistan are fighting an uphill struggle in Pakistan. We need them to win but they are being killed off faster than we can defend them, and even attempting to defend them is hurting their cause to boot. It's easy to declare that a strategy is bad and has horrible consequences, it's a lot more important though to propose a better alternative. Stop the attacks and do nothing means a Pakistan where the Taliban where still best friends with the military and intelligence agencies. It means a nuclear armed state that was best friends with terrorist organizations eager to use those nuclear weapons in their jihad while we lacked any way of assessing just how close and willing their partnership was. Don't dismiss this assessment as doomsday fear mongering. One of the debates in Pakistan's national assemblies after Osama's death included elected representatives bemoaning Pakistan's failure to protect a great Muslim hero like Bin Laden. Pakistan is a battle ground between extremist and moderate populations and we have a very vested interest in who wins that struggle.

>> ^longde:

I thought our engagement was supporting our NATO allies with fuel and such, and sending in unmanned drones to do reconnisance and bombing. Does that rise to the level of a war? We must be at war with half the planet, then.


Yes, we must be...

I thought our engagement was supporting our NATO allies with fuel and such, and sending in unmanned drones to do reconnisance and bombing. Does that rise to the level of a war? We must be at war with half the planet, then.

A chemistry teacher I once had supposedly used to do this with Sterno canned heat and dry cleaning bags. I guess they're quite the spectacle and have led to UFO reports before; the transparent bags glow purple and can make it to the stratosphere if they don't fall on a house and burn it down first.

It's illegal according to FAA:

§ 101.7 Hazardous operations.

(a) No person may operate any moored balloon, kite, amateur rocket, or unmanned free balloon in a manner that creates a hazard to other persons, or their property.

(b) No person operating any moored balloon, kite, amateur rocket, or unmanned free balloon may allow an object to be dropped therefrom, if such action creates a hazard to other persons or their property.

magnetic bubbles. unmanned space-craft say the darndest things.

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Oh man, you really don't think that'll stop any of them. They'll say they are fake photos.

They'll say that the things up there were put there by unmanned ships.

They'll say and believe anything they bloody well want to keep their delusion alive.

Same as the 911 nuts

Same as UFO crazies.

NONE of them have ANY evidence to support ANY of their claims.

And they won't take your or my FACT as evidence...

Cool stuff though

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It's a UAG. Unmanned Aerial Ghost.


That was bad...need more chocolate. Ahhhhh.

If you oppose war, than the volunteer army shouldn't be appealing at all. Conscription armies make war less justifiable. It encourages opposition to the war both within and outside government.

In fact, this is one of my primary complaints about the modern military, and particularly the unmanned drones. It makes war far too easy a sell. If it was going to mean Jenna Bush walking through the streets of Baghdad with no body armor, and the flag of the invader plastered all over herself, do you really think we'd be in two wars?

My casual observation is that if a woman wrote and directed this, certainly she still sees some societal issues with gender roles. I've also observed that there is no small number of women who feel this way.

As a man, I have noticed that men are at the top of every power structure in my society. Women have made increasing inroads during my lifetime, but they're far from equal. Quick tip for knowing when gender equality is a non-issue: it's when every country's parliament is made up of roughly equal numbers of men and women, when the management teams of all companies are made up of roughly equal numbers of men and women, and the "richest people in the world" list has as many men as women, and in any given year you can't be sure if it'll be a man or a woman at the top of the list, or taking up residence in the White House.

I'll also know when it's as common for a man to be a stay-at-home dad as it is for a woman to be a stay-at-home mom. I'll also know when the stay-at-home dads don't face ridicule from their peers for being somehow unmanly for doing women's work.

But mostly, I notice that more and more these days conversations about inequality seem to always center around how much a white male is offended about allegations that inequality might still be an issue.

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