Thank God Almighty that the adults are back in charge. It is true the ROE’s have been stripped since the time of Reagan. Daddy Bush started it when Powell came whining to him about the media showing what we were doing to eradicate the bassturds fleeing Kuwait on the road to Basra.
Stormin Norman had the entire fleeing Republican Guard double flamked on the road to Nasiriya and about to unleash Hell on them with the 24th Mechanized to the south and the 82nd Airborne Assault to the north all with A-10 support. Bush stopped it all when CNN started to show the Basra footage.
If only for 24 to 48 hours free reign, the second war in Iraq would have never been necessary. Hussein would have lost it all. To make matters worse, Bush gave them their helos back and that is how they squashed the uprisings that kept him in power.
Substitute “ Colin Powell” for “ Bush”
Trump isn’t the first president to let generals make decsions
He just has better generals