"A lot of us feel like we have our hands tied behind our back," says Cpl. Peter Mattice, of Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment. "In Fallujah, [insurgents] know our [rules of engagement] - they know when to stop, just before we engage."
If that doesn't have the stench of McNamara's Vietnam, I don't know what does.
I remember during Vietnam my Dad offered this analogy: "Suppose the neighbor next door comes into our yard and throws rocks at our house, and we chase him but have to stop chasing him once he jumps the fence into the yard next door because we're not allowed to go there. Would you want to fight a war that way?"
We need to brutally and mercilessly chase down and kill kill kill the enemy or we should get the hell out of Iraq. (Of course, I realize the Marines have to be careful over there - - somebody might accuse them of accidentally killing a civilian in a war zone, and they could end up getting arrested by their own US military and put on trial.)
On another thread yesterday I read about "terrorist training camps east of Baghdad" Is that a joke? With our complete control of the skies, how could any square mile "east of Baghdad" which might contain a "terrorist training camp" not be turned into a crater within minutes?
And "insurgents", by their nature, "insurge" from somewhere else. We can't figure out where insurgents are insurging from and kill half of them before they cross the border? Gimme a break.... By now, there should be some fairly decent intelligence assets developed among the Iraqis.
So, either we go balls to the wall and kill kill kill, or we get out.
If that sounds like "cut and run", then so be it.
Sorry about the rant, and maybe the scumbag liberal newsrooms here in the US have finally beaten me down, but I need to hear big, daily "enemy killed" numbers (screw "detained" and "captured") and I am not hearing them.
Semper fidelis,
LH
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
If that doesn't have the stench of McNamara's Vietnam, I don't know what does.
To trust in the American Soldier to be able to do his job without his hands being tied does NOT mean I am a troll.
"A lot of us feel like we have our hands tied behind our back," says Cpl. Peter Mattice, of Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment."
This is a recipe for losing. God bless our soldiers who are doing their best to win despite the obsticles put up by DC
I hear a radio story about how snipers are ham stung by bureacratic rules.
What we have is the pencil pushers trying to micro manage Iraq like a police enforcement issue but win it like a military campaign.
We need to educate people, "the enemy must die" is the correct mantra.
We need to educate the voters that the enemy is not wearing uniforms as a military tactic.
The paper pushers count on the public being ignorant.