The bleeding heart liberals on the guardian blog
have done this animation.
www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2013/mar/25/drone-attacks-pakistan-visualised
If you get past the powerpointy ness of it it's actually quite impressive.

However am I the only one who thinks this shows that drone strikes are sort of working, and are at least getting better?

What's your opinion on the morality of drone strikes, is the death of 47 high profile terrorists worth the accidental death of 175 children?
(PsychoChomp, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 12:47, 98 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

FIRST

(King Zog of Albania lives in Kensington, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 12:48, Reply)

ha ha
yeah
(PsychoChomp, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 12:50, Reply)

haha

(King Zog of Albania lives in Kensington, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 12:51, Reply)

Speaking of the easily upset

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:10, Reply)

Well fancy that.
The bloke with the stripper girlfriend has 2.0'd me over some covered-up nudity and a CDC.
( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:31, Reply)

I think in the current climate we have to ask how attractive were the children?

( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 12:50, Reply)

It's only fair to assume they were averagly attractive.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 12:51, Reply)

Obama sure hates those Pakis.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 12:51, Reply)

Don't we all.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 12:53, Reply)

Can Bartleby be linked to this area, I reckon he's covering his tracks

(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 12:51, Reply)

alright Noam PsychoChompsky?

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 12:52, Reply)

Yeah not too bad. I'm pretty proud of my girlfriend at the moment. She's better than everyone elses girlfriend that's for sure.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 12:53, Reply)

any particular reason?

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 12:53, Reply)

She's got a temp job last monday as some £8 an hour phone/admin monkey
today she got offered an area manager job looking after 52 sites.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 12:54, Reply)

For the same call centre company?
Or is this something else she's applied for?
( Kroney, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 12:56, Reply)

It's not a call center company, it's a site managment sort of place.
So organising repairs cleaning, inspections bills for company rented places. But yeah for the same company.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 12:58, Reply)

Good on her, then!

( Kroney, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:01, Reply)

I am impressed.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:07, Reply)

She'll replace you in a similar manner soon.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:17, Reply)

So she can keep her clothes on at work now?

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:46, Reply)

IS NOT
MINE'S BETTER BECAUSE I'VE BEEN BANGING ON ABOUT HER FOR LONGER
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 12:54, Reply)

NO
MINE'S BETTER BECAUSE SHE'S ONLY A FEW MONTHS AWAY FROM GETTING HER PHD
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 12:58, Reply)

MY GIRLFRIEND WORKS FOR NINTENDO AND BROUGHT HOME THE NEW TOP SECRET GAMEBOY

( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 12:59, Reply)

b3ta.com/questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1899575
(King Zog of Albania lives in Kensington, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:01, Reply)

I don't even have a girlfriend.
My wife won't let me :(
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 12:58, Reply)

I GET THIS
It's not funny though
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 12:53, Reply)

it's vaguely funny.
Not my best work, that was last night's gag about Battered spiking the drinks of Polish women so he can molest them when they feel a bit Lodz-y.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 12:57, Reply)

Quick everyone find this post and click it

(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:06, Reply)

that animation made my computer run slower than a stunned slug so I closed the tab
tough shit pakis
(King Zog of Albania lives in Kensington, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 12:53, Reply)

Sorry, could you repeat that?
I wasn't paying attention
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 12:53, Reply)

you really are a fucking dick

(King Zog of Albania lives in Kensington, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 12:55, Reply)

x

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 12:55, Reply)

People die in wars.
Other people seem perpetually shocked that this happens.
( Kroney, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 12:55, Reply)

haha, yeah

(King Zog of Albania lives in Kensington, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 12:56, Reply)

Isn't the point more that the US isn't technically at war with Pakistan?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 12:57, Reply)

The point seems to be OH NO CHILDRENS
Which happens in every conflict, war, police action or however you want to spin it.

The people you want to be blaming are the Pakistani government who don't seem to be trying to protect their people at all.
( Kroney, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 12:59, Reply)

I think it is over-simplistic to lay the blame in one place.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:12, Reply)

sounds like someone wants to get into a war with the US

( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 12:59, Reply)

did you see the sexy North Korean news anchor?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21935342
(King Zog of Albania lives in Kensington, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:02, Reply)

Jesus, will you fucking grow up, please?

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:03, Reply)

don't start showing off just to impress your friends

(King Zog of Albania lives in Kensington, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:05, Reply)

Ha, jokes on you
I don't HAVE any friends
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:07, Reply)

I think of all the b3tans I've ever known, you are the one into whose mouth I would most like to urinate

(King Zog of Albania lives in Kensington, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:11, Reply)

I'm actually quite flattered by this, Frank
Thank you
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:12, Reply)

I'd eat asparagus for a week beforehand

(King Zog of Albania lives in Kensington, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:13, Reply)

Good, I like asparagus

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:14, Reply)

that's how you get your five a day
you let 5 people do asparagus wee into your mouth
(King Zog of Albania lives in Kensington, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:16, Reply)

And they say it's hard to get kids to eat their vegetables

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:19, Reply)

I'D LIKE TO GET HER INTO COMBAT POSTURE ETC

( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:04, Reply)

COMBAT DUTY POSTURE NUMBER 1

(King Zog of Albania lives in Kensington, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:06, Reply)

I saw Ben from Eastenders got off

( Peej, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:05, Reply)

dunno who that is, soz

(King Zog of Albania lives in Kensington, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:11, Reply)

No he didn't.
He got banged up for murdering Hev.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:15, Reply)

He got off raping that kid

( Peej, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:16, Reply)

I must have missed it that week.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:17, Reply)

IRL JEFF! IRL!

( Peej, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:17, Reply)

I think I missed something, I assume 'other' included just normal combatants?
they seem to have been getting a lot better at not killing children in recent years, maybe they just need some more practice
( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 12:57, Reply)

I think that the other includes all men in and around the age of suspected terrorists.
So they could be naughty they could be the local bin man.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:01, Reply)

What?
I watched some weird show last night following bomb disposal dudes around Iraq, or Afghanistan or some rag head country. It seemed like a lot of the innocent civilians were pretty cool about these guys getting blown up.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 26 Mar 2013, 12:57, Reply)

Woah, rag head?
Well, I'm shocked.
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:09, Reply)

He's allowed, he's from one of the last persecuted minorities, you know.

( Kroney, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:10, Reply)

Its ok he's standing in a rag head restaurant

( Peej, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:11, Reply)

Personally I find the whole thing morally abhorrent
But I'm not prepared to enter into any long tedious online debate on this.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:01, Reply)

Haven't got the energy after your lettuce and grape lunch?

(PsychoChomp, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:02, Reply)

Do you think this is also the reason for my malignant apathy?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:12, Reply)

WAR! HUH! YEAH! GOOD GOD Y'ALL!
Unexpected post from the resident Birkinstock wearer.
( Kroney, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:03, Reply)

Is it a coincidence that Edwin Starr died just two weeks after the Allied invasion of Iraq in 2003?
I think not.
WAKE UP SHEEPLE
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:20, Reply)

then you might as well be killing all those children with your own two hessian gloved hands

( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:07, Reply)

My fingering gloves?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:14, Reply)

let's face facts here, they'd only have grown up to be terrorists anyway

(King Zog of Albania lives in Kensington, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:14, Reply)

I'll just win the argument by calling you a bleeding heart liberal pinko communist faggot then

(King Zog of Albania lives in Kensington, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:12, Reply)

This is how I always lose arguments.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:14, Reply)

I'm more or less with you hippy.

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:19, Reply)

Luckily you are already quite unpopular.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:21, Reply)

Needs MOAR alt
Something about football or "film"
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:15, Reply)

Or lunch!
I just ate a whole haggis, no joke!
( Peej, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:16, Reply)

or football-related films

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:16, Reply)

That DON'T have Danny Dyer in them

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:16, Reply)

escape to victory

(King Zog of Albania lives in Kensington, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:17, Reply)

Escape to Victory!

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:16, Reply)

Escape to Andrew Marr

( Peej, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:18, Reply)

Escape to the shed

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:19, Reply)

COOLER

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:23, Reply)

Football is shit.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:16, Reply)

Like the Murphy's eh Jeff

(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:21, Reply)

I'm going to see this film tonight:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sightseers
We can talk about that, if you like.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:16, Reply)

it's made by that bloke who used to post here innit
he did that series on telly that wasn't funny
(King Zog of Albania lives in Kensington, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:20, Reply)

www.b3ta.com/interview/benwheatley/
(King Zog of Albania lives in Kensington, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:26, Reply)

Quite intrigued by that
Details please
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:21, Reply)

It's meant to be good, I've not seen it yet.
Might watch it this week.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:23, Reply)

Lighty recommends it.
I don't know what his film buff credentials are though.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:24, Reply)

Did anyone else see Plebs last night?
It was quite amusing. Basically The Inbetweeners but set in ancient Rome.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:23, Reply)

the tralier makes it look like the worst thing ever made

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:25, Reply)

It looks nothing like Little Britain

(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:26, Reply)

I don't know what the inbetweeners is
but judging by the people who say it's good, I imagine it's utterly shit
(King Zog of Albania lives in Kensington, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:26, Reply)

It looked somewhat like a poor version of
Chelmsford 123
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:34, Reply)

Exactly the same arguments were used when submarines came into warfare.

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:26, Reply)

Yeah
but

you can't make a really tense film starring Sean Connery, or Gene Hackman, or a load of krauts, in an unmanned drone.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:33, Reply)