Talking about the ROE
I'm listening.... it's not a very happy topic.
The ROE were meant to win the hearts and minds of the Islamic citizenry. How many of our guys died because of the ROE?
We went out of our way to avoid 'collateral' damage. Yet the enemy could care less about collateral damage and is using collateral damage to weaken our resolve. War is not pretty and collateral damage is a part of it.
The real choice boils down to accepting collateral damage in order to get the insurgents or more of our collateral damage here if we don't get serious and ruthless. The ROE must reflect that we NEED to win this now or else we lose there and ultimately here and I do like living, thank you.