Posted on 08/06/2010 6:47:28 PM PDT by WriteStuff
The Associated Press is reporting that Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan, has rewritten, er… cleaned up language in an earlier directive by former commander, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, that the troops there said tied their hands when it came to rules of engagement.
Now that we have the politicians fighting the war on terror it’s clear that this thing will drag on until America once again tires of media reports of the war and of more American casualties and we pull out with our head hung low in defeat. What happened to the generals of old who’s only mission in life was to kill people and break things? Seems today if one of those warrior generals rises through the ranks our civilian leadership fires them and replaces them with political generals.
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The war will be over when its funding stops. That is us. We buy their oil and their drugs and they turn around and kill us. We allow them political status and bomb our Christian allies as we did with Serbia.
We literally fuel our enemies.
“had we simply sent a few bombers over to the Middle East with the express orders to repave several countries in a sheet of radioactive glass.”
While I fear that action may become reality at some point in time, it will have marked the end of our nation when it does.
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