[nutmeg]

Recently on ABC television news, one of their videos showed a U.S. Marine hunkered down in Afghanistan complaining on camera that he was not allowed to shoot back when under fire. This situation resulted from Obama’s new rules of engagement from his new Afghanistan commander. General McChrystal explained it to BBC news that they are now advising troops to break off from firefights with the Taliban, "If you are in a situation where you are under fire from the enemy... if there is any chance of creating civilian casualties or if you don't know whether you will create civilian casualties, if you can withdraw from that situation without firing, then you must do so”

This cannot be for real... can it?

[Wyatt's Torch]

Here is the original BBC source article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8118013.stm

[An American In Dairyland]

General McChrystal explained it to BBC news that they are now advising troops to break off from firefights with the Taliban, "If you are in a situation where you are under fire from the enemy... if there is any chance of creating civilian casualties or if you don't know whether you will create civilian casualties, if you can withdraw from that situation without firing, then you must do so”

My grandfather was a policeman during the riots in Milwaukee during the summer of 1967. I remember him telling this same story to us for years afterward. He was 64 and a year from retirement and he said he was laying in a wet gutter as bullets whizzed past his head with orders not to shoot back. It seems the policy is an old one.