General Explains Decision to Refrain From Targeting Taliban Funeral

American Forces Press Service ^ | John D. Banusiewicz

[SandRat]

What say you????? Is someone feeling some heat????

[laweeks]

Gee, I guess they'd behave and make nice to us too. Incredible. We're gonna' lose this war and lose big. PC will destroy us.

[msnimje]

Their women and children are fair game until they stop targeting ours.

[Axhandle]

Does this imply that we trampled upon our values as a nation when we firebombed Dresden and Tokyo?

[cripplecreek]

I thought we had weapons that were accurate enough to deal with that situation.

[rocksblues]

So if some douche bag Intel officer thinks that maybe just maybe there maybe women and children within the strike zone we must not attack.

I think we must get some balls and really fight this war. And not let so called lawyers fight it.

[NittanyLion]

I'm going to trust the general who had to make the choice on the spot, rather than second guess his/her decision.

[CWOJackson]

“So that commander made a decision, based upon our values as a people, based upon our values as a nation, that he would not strike,” Eikenberry said. The general noted that the enemy has no such values.

This kind of spirit is what separates us from them.

[Enterprise]

I don't care. Heads should roll, starting with whoever made the decision not to attack.

[SandRat]

To the Leftie Loonie Losers and Sissies --- YES.

[rawcatslyentist]

>"Just outside the frame, he said, was an Afghan village."

AKA Terrorist barracks! You schmuckwad general!

[the anti-liberal]

"PC will destroy us."

This thing cuts both ways, imo - had we gone ahead and targeted them we would never hear the end of it from our liberal 'friends'.

[toddlintown]

Was that a concern when we bombed Dresden? BTW, we won that non-PC war.

[SandRat]

Nope.

[FightThePower!]

He should be put into millitary prison for the rest of his life for making such a stupid decision. What a jerk!

[laweeks]

No matter what we do will be condemned by our media.

They either are or are NOT the enemy. And if they stand amidst "innocents" and we have the stupidity to not take the punks out, then shame on us. We can't win. We won't win. We don't have the guts to wipe them out.

I just think of what they did to the last two soldiers that were captured (eyes gouged out, mutilated, etc.) and I wonder when we're going to stop pussy-footing around and clean them out. All wars have casualties, and THE HELL WITH THE MEDIA. Boy, I'd hate to be in uniform today. They can find us (we're in uniforms) and we can't find them (they're cowards and hide amongst civilians). Lord All Might, Colonel!

[Michael Goldsberry]

Does this imply that we trampled upon our values as a nation when we firebombed Dresden and Tokyo?

Don't apply the logic of the past to our times. That would be... barbaric.

(/s)

[PghBaldy]

So, Taliban women and children are worth more than American men, women and children. Nice to know.

[rabidralph]

"That's what it looks like to the untrained eye."--George Costanza