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Don't Look Now, But the Marines and Brits Just High-Tailed it Out of Taliban Stronghold
Foreign Policy ^ | 10/27/2014 | BY COLUM LYNCH

Posted on 10/27/2014 10:25:22 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

With the onerous, ridiculous and suicidal Rules Of Engagement they were under, which amounted to having their hands tied behind their backs, this is nothing more than the Big Bugout To Appease Code Pink and other Ayers-inspired surrender groups. Another foreign “We have no plan for that” policy failure.


21 posted on 10/27/2014 3:38:46 PM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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Still, Fallon, showing a candor often missing in the statements of equally senior American officials, acknowledged that “mistakes were made militarily, mistakes were made by the politicians at the time and this goes back 10, 13 years.”

Bush's fault

22 posted on 10/29/2014 10:04:07 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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Your military isn’t unbeatable, no military is, from the Roman legions and the forces of Alexander to America or Britain’s armies today.


23 posted on 11/02/2014 12:30:11 PM PST by the scotsman (UK)
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