Cooper Thompson has a very distinctive look, like the lovechild of a porcelain doll and a Greek god statue.
I—I want to draw you.
Perfect. Babby.
Drachea Rannak - Sailor Disney
Oh my…
You guys forgot the most important sailor of them all.
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curse you and your strange image morphing ways, tumblr.
Map(of)Porn: most searched term on porn sites
i see you kentucky
more like gayfucky
this made me laugh more then it should have
there are so many things about this that are hilarious
AHAHAHAHAHA I’m just gonna go ahead and claim Kentucky as my fault.
We’re movin’ to new york next. Just watch me turn it green! XD
Leaked Report: Nearly Half of US Drone Strikes in Pakistan Not Against al-Qaeda
A trove of leaked classified reports has confirmed what many had suspected – US drone kills in Pakistan are not the precision strikes against top-level al-Qaeda terrorists they are portrayed as by the Obama administration.
Instead, many of the attacks are aimed at suspected low-level tribal militants, who may pose no direct danger to the United States – and for many there appears to be little evidence to justify the assassinations.
Top secret documents obtained by McClatchy newspapers in the US show the locations, identities and numbers of those attacked and killed in Pakistan in 2006-8 and 2010-11, as well as explanations for why the targets were picked.
The statistics illustrate the breadth of the US ‘drone doctrine’ – which has never been defined by consecutive US administrations. Between 1,990 and 3,308 people are reported to have been killed in the drone strikes in Pakistan since 2004, the vast majority of them during the Obama terms.
In the 12-month period up to 2011, 43 out of 95 drone strikes in the reports (which give an account of the vast majority of US operations in the country) were not aimed at al-Qaeda at all. And 265 out of 482 people killed in those assassinations, were defined internally as “extremists”.
Indeed, only six of the men killed – less than two percent – were senior al-Qaeda leaders.
Some of the groups include the Haqqani network and the Taliban Movement of Pakistan, both militant organizations, but ones the US did not designate as terrorists until 2012 and 2010 respectively. Neither one has ever conducted an attack on US soil.
It also confirms that attacks during the George W. Bush era, were conducted on targets picked by ISI, Pakistan’s security agency, which has no obligations to comply with US legal criteria.
Furthermore, in some cases it is difficult to confirm that the targets were militants at all.
Fucking do not even try to tell me our drone strikes are good policy on any level.
It always sort of suprises me how many people are shocked by this. But I guess not everyone is a political scientist coding for civilian casualties. So here goes:
Drones are easy to use. they are a tool to be used in order to do a job. If we did not have drones, it is unlikely our “jobs”, these assassinations, would be any different. We just wouldn’t be using drones to do them, which might lead to higher casualties. We’d just go back to using concentrated, strategic air strikes.
It could be argued that the USA would make less assassinations if drones were not so easy to use, but this article provides no evidence in that direction. It only tells us how many were killed with drones, with no comparison to the number of deaths under the Bush administration where air strikes were used more often.
The real issue is not drone use, its the way security is designed. The United States has been entrenched in assassination, coersion and sabotage in order to keep itself safe almost since its existence. If one goes back and reads any of our de-classified documents from the south and central american revolutions, for example, you’ll see officials arguing back and forth over what company has to stay in power for the Untied states to remain secure, or what political party is likely to be close to our enemies, and what is the risk we take by not taking them out pre-emptively. It doesn’t matter if someone has done something wrong to us. It’s our goverment’s current perrogative to stop threats before they form.
It’s morally wrong, to be certain. and it makes me sick sometimes to think about…. but honestly, thinking back on history, I’m not certain that our country would have survived so well without that mentality.
The real truth is, these drone assassinations and other moves like them—they’ve been going on for a real long time and they’re not likely to stop. The best thing we can do is educate ourselves on the subject, resign ourself to some measure of the ruthless calculus of war, and try to change the world for the better.
I’m not saying they should make a sequel. I’m just saying that Dewitt with a baby is probably the hottest thing in the history of ever.
Testing out a new way to color. Trying out this tutorial here.
I love swanky ladies. I’mma have to try my hand at Rosalind Lutece soon I think.
New species of bat found, Niumbaha superba, and it’s adorable.
Oh wow! I’m glad people are as excited about animals as I am. Here’s some additional photos. Fun fact: this bat is so different from others that a new genus was created!
gimme
dear lord. it’s a bumblebat.
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