I’m posting this without comment because every sentence I can come up with right now has the half-word “mother” in it and I respect the posting guidelines. I also suspect I would be visited by the Secret Service.
From today’s Investor’s Business Daily…
On the battlefield, our troops are increasingly constrained by legalistic rules of engagement.
Case in point: On Tuesday, four U.S. Marines and seven of their Afghani allies walked into a well-planned ambush and were killed in the Kunar province near the Pakistani border.
“We are pinned down. We are running low on ammo. We have no air. We’ve lost today,” Marine Maj. Kevin Williams, 37, told his Afghan counterpart, responding to the latter’s repeated demands for helicopters, McClatchy Newspapers reported.
Rules of engagement condemned them to die because they couldn’t get air cover.
According to McClatchy: “U.S. commanders, citing new rules to avoid civilian casualties, rejected repeated calls to unleash artillery rounds at attackers dug into the slopes and tree lines — despite being told repeatedly that they weren’t near the village.”
You really need to read the whole editorial.
Moe Lane
Neil Stevens
Daniel Horowitz
Steve Maley
George Will was right in that we need to leave....
JadedByPolitics (Diary) Friday, September 11th at 5:45AM EST (link)if we don’t intend to be VICTORIOUS!!! My stomach gets twisted into knots when I hear the numbers of our soldiers dying over in Afghanistan and for what? I used to know what the endgame was over there and now I do not. The ROE is killing our finest so that the President doesn’t have to worry about killing “innocent” civilians when the reality is there are no “innocents” in Afghanistan except for small children with no idea what their parents are doing. The teenagers and the grownups are very aware of what is happening and they are participating by allowing the Taliban to live in their regions with their protection. It is time to GO, do not allow more to die for anything less then VICTORY!
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Indeed, it does sound like Vietnam.
Justin_Case (Diary) Friday, September 11th at 10:35AM EST (link)Our ROE in 1970 was no artillery if the target was within 1,000 meters of a village or hamlet. Artillery gets there much quicker than jets or gunships. 1,000 meters is a huge distance, given the fact that that our FOs were extremely skillful.
The article mentions the morale of the troops suffering. I’ve experienced it and know it will cause many needless deaths.