"These insurgents fire mortars from the beds of Toyota trucks and then drive away like cowards"
What do you expect them to do? Sit and wait for infinitely better equipped soldiers to appear, then challenge them to a duel?
It's not really cowardice, more circumspection. Cowardice would be running away before even attacking.
You are right. A real coward wouldn't even attack. Those who call ambushers and hit and run attackers are idio-- I mean uninformed.
Too many people THAT AREN'T EVEN THERE take these attacks personal. It isn't personal, it's business.
Sometimes I wonder why I even bother reading these threads when all they do is agrivate me. I've had many impacts within 100 meters. Many. Mortar and rocket. Have even had US ordnance fall within 300 meters of my position. I've watched at the enemy walking in and bracketed us with mortars within 250 meters. Forutnately the USMC guns silenced them before they got any closer.
Begone terrorist supporter!