So I guess ordering the USAF to stop bombing the Taliban and the Marines to stop shooting at them in the villages is not working out as well as Gates had hoped....?
it really looks like regardless what “we” do it will be allways “wrong”. using more caution and to try desperate not to hurt civilians when fighting the Taliban will result in more dead soldiers. to don´t do this will result in more potentional enemys because as misplaced bombing run for example will recruit many more fighters for the enemy. but then again this is Afghanistan so it´s not even shure who exactly the enemy is right now (they change a lot).