Csteele......yes, sorry about that:).....I was in a bit of a hurry)

BLUE:)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_attacks_in_Pakistan

There you go, Csteele. Lots of militants killed and the people
in the area think that drones are much safer then air attacks
by the Pakistani military, as there is much less collateral damage.

*Are you implying Australia and the other signatories are not clever?*

I am saying that from a strategic military point of view, no it is
not clever. If you want to tie your military's arms behind their
back and expect them to win a war, so be it. I would not be out
there fighting for you, lol.

You of course, are not on the front lines with your life on the line.
It is very easy to sit by the computer and pontificate.

How do you know when you might be from convict decent?

You take your dog for a walk and both use the same tree.

You can entertain yourself for more than 15 minutes with a flyswatter.

Your boat has not left the driveway in 15 years.

You burn your yard rather than mow it.

The Salvation Army declines your mattress.

You have the local taxidermist on speed dial.

You come back from the dump with more than you took.

You keep a can of Raid on the kitchen table.

Your wife can climb a tree faster than your cat.

Your grandmother has "ammo" on her Christmas list.

You keep flea and tick soap in the shower.

You've been involved in a custody fight over a hunting dog.

You go to the Bathurst car races and don't need a program.

You know how many bales of hay your car will hold.

You have a rag for a Fuel cap.

Your house doesn't have curtains, but your ute does.

You wonder how service stations keep their restrooms so clean.

You consider your license plate personalized because your father made it.

Your lifetime goal is to own a fireworks stand.

You have a complete set of salad bowls and they all say "Cool Whip" on the side.

The biggest city you've ever been to is K-Mart.

Your working TV sits on top of your non-working TV.

You've used your ironing board as a buffet table.

A cyclone hits your neighborhood and does $100,000 worth of improvements.

You've used a toilet brush to scratch your back.

You missed your 5th grade graduation because you had to get to the dole office.

You think fast food is hitting a roo at 65 km's.

And last, but not least...

Somebody tells you that you've got something in your teeth, so you take them out to see what it is!

There! all fixed:)

BLUE:)

*I realize my grammar, argument construction and editing have suffered from posting off a phone.*

Sheesh Csteele, correct me if I am wrong, but I am forming the
opinion that you might be a traveller by trade, so posting from
your mobile, at your bosses expense.

How moral would that be?

I can yet again, see why it is deep blue, bright,, it would not be appropriate.
No coward,proudly from convict stock, I can not justify to post any more in a thread in festered by the gentle man.
Give me this only before condemning me, read the post history of our man of the hour.
A clear and true reason to understand my remarks about Wits and Twits.
good by to the thread we will talk again csteele, while any enemy of my enemy may be true, watch your new Friend.

Dear Belly,

Thank you for your contributions to the thread. We will have to agree to disagree but it has been a spirited discourse which is all to the good.

Dear Yabby,

It has been more than a couple of decades since any boss ever peered over my expense account.

Regardless, working for yourself always makes for a very thin expense account however I have never been the type of boss to pour over employee's expenses either. Always taken them at their word. One can worry ones self into an early grave otherwise.

Now to your assertion “There you go, Csteele. Lots of militants killed and the people in the area think that drones are much safer then air attacks by the Pakistani military, as there is much less collateral damage.”

I'm happy to accept the obvious, that a drone is more accurate than the more primitive bombing campaign of the Pakistan Airforce. But it is like saying I'm happier to have a sniper firing in my general direction rather than a machine gun while in fact all I want is there to be no firing at all.

I had seen the Wiki article you refer to and initially found it quite interesting. However on doing a touch more research I found the group who did the survey is questionable. Any links to their website show the site to be removed.

I did find this on another site.

“AIRRA shall focus thematically to understand and recommend for human security, social development, regional cooperation and an environment free of extremism and terrorism that would probably usher in an era of pluralism, equal economic and political opportunities, rule of law, and individual and collective empowerment for the people of South and Central Asia within their state institutional frameworks in consonance with nature.”

Happy to examine any material that supports the conclusion made in the Wiki piece but right now I don't.