wonderingwanderer

I will never again assume that someone is progressive just because he’s gay, or in a party called Labour.

Fucking finally.

Now lets see how much worse the next one is…

I’m pretty sure fairphone has that hardwired killswitch

Obama didn’t start the invasions, but if you can’t see the very real consequences of abruptly and prematurely pulling out of Iraq and Afghanistan, then I’d like to introduce you to ISIS and the Taliban, because this is what happens when you botch a full-scale withdrawal of military forces.

It’s not as simple as “my predecessor shouldn’t have started this war, so let’s just suddenly leave without having a better plan in place and doing years of stability operations to ensure the long-term success of the civilian government.”

His ratio of civilians to combatants looks much better than Bush’s.

And it’s not surprising that the raw, absolute number of drone strikes went up, seeing as it was an emerging technology at the time.

Plus, the alternative would be a full-on frontal assault, which would involve artillery, air support, and battalions of ground troops composed of fallible humans with highly destructive weaponry, followed by long-term stability operations with regular patrols.

Compared to that, drone strikes are more surgical and targeted toward military leadership, command centers, and weapons cachés. Just look up the invasions of Fallujah, Mosul, and Baghdad if you want to see war crimes and civilian casualties. All of those happened under Bush.

The fuck it will.

It’s either satire or else it’s Microsoft doing guerilla marketing…

Moderators run the sub, not the users. It’s not democratic, and we don’t care how you think it should be run

Yeah, that sounds like Windows… (which you’re not allowed to bash, by the way!)