Rules of Engagement WWII Style
Posted on 09/13/2006 6:13:58 AM PDT by pabianice
Haven't seen this posted yet. Fox is reporting that recently one of our UAVs filmed in live time a Taliban funeral in Afghanistan at which 190 Taliban leaders were shown lined-up in ranks. Fox is showing the photo and reporting that US policy forbids the killing of Taliban in cemetaries and thus the US watched the funeral but took no action to kill the 190 murderers attending. If this is true -- tough question here -- how is Bush any better than Clinton regarding the war on terror?
The political rhtoric aside, its nice to know that we are extending the courtesies of combat to such worthy and noble foes. (Sarcasm)
I don't think the politicians in Washington GET IT - Republican or Democrat.
This is WW3.
Out of the blue, has anyone ever wondered why we don't target enemy military parades when a few bombs could take out 50,000 enemy soldiers easily?
One would have to move quite a ways towards the concept of relative as opposed to objective truth to believe that anyway.
This kind of crap comes from the Pentagon. If this administration can be blamed for any part of these stupid rules of engagement it would be for not cleaning out the perfumed princes and attorneys in the Pentagon still operating under U.N. policies.
A submaine skipper doesn't sit at the controls, either. But he bears the blame if his boat runs aground.
At this point it wouldn't surprise me if Bin Laden were hiding in a cemetary. Probably in a mansion with a flashing neon sign out front.
And how many Americans will be killed or wounded by those Taliban AHs from that cemetary? This is not a friendship contest - we are talking American lives!
I would assume that, at some time, they'd have to come OUT of the cemetery.
I'm not sure what the problem is.
Even if only 1% of them were American double agents, it would be tough to bomb them.
Assets in the tribes there are very hard to get.
We need to be able to hand control over to the Afghans in situations like this. Somehow I doubt that they would be so timid about doing what needs to be done.
How many more of our soldiers and citizens are going to die because of this pc nonsense?
Sure it may be perceived as low blow to bomb a funeral full of terrorists. But it well save lives and have the added benefit of terrorizing the terrorists.
All 190 taliban leaders were lined up like ducks in a row.
That's the casket to the north and the black blur atthe bottom are all of their leaders all lined up in respect.
One well placed munition could have done it. It was a UAV drone that captured the picture. not sure if it was armed or not but the intel guys apparently think they coulda bagged the whole rats nest with one blow, but were told no.
THAT is the problem here.
Excuse me? Where did double agents come from? nothing in the article about double agents.
Why? Oh why??? Oh why??? are we permitting lawyers/reporters/American military haters.....
to control this war?
Between the reporters telling everything they know,
and rat-dems dogging the President,
newspapers telling the secrets of war,
and lawyers calling the shots and controlling our maneuvers......well........
....somebody, somewhere has forgotten, war is not civil.
Repeat...war is not civil!!!
From the Fox report this morning, they immediately scattered in many small groups after the burial and the moment was lost. This has nothing to do with the rules of the Geneva Convention apparently, because we do attack cemeteries in Iraq if fired on from those sites. This must be a Karzai government rule, and if so, we ought to leave him to the tender mercies of the Taliban and get our troops out of there. You would think that we'd have learned the big lesson of Vietnam: Don't go to war if you don't intend to win. And handcuffing your fighting men with lots of "don't touch" rules makes winning almost impossible and explains the 53,000 dead in Vietnam.
The "problem" is in the Post article:
" Agonizingly, Army officers could do nothing but watch the pictures being fed back from the drone as the Taliban splintered into tiny groups - too small to effectively target with the drone - and headed back to their mountainside hideouts."
http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/taliban_gets_bury_lucky_worldnews_ian_bishop.htm
Apparently, this drone was more than a camera drone.
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