So long as we play the "game" by their rules --- they win...
Until we decide to deal a level of destruction, death and horror to our enemies in the area -- we remain the "target" of opportunity ..
Been there, done that....and YES it IS becoming more like Vietnam every day.....
In fact --- I hear the SAME VOICES and see the SAME FACES calling for abandonment of our objectives and warriors.
Semper Fi
Read Desolate Roads Part 2 now
Michael Yon is back in Iraq.
http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/desolate-roads-part-2-of-2.htm
It tells more about how handcuffed our troops are.
At the battalion level. The route where the giant bomb was hidden had not been swept by IA in four days.
The Howling Wind
There were five occupants in the humvee: 2LT Mark Daily born in Irvine, California; SSG John Cooper born in Cleveland, Ohio; SGT Ian Anderson born in Prairie Village, Kansas; Specialist Matthew Grimm from Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin. Matt Grimm had recently been awarded a Purple Heart for injuries he suffered while on patrol in a humvee that came under attack. It was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade that killed Sergeant Brent Dunkleberger. Matt had been driving the day Brent was killed, and he was driving again on the morning of 15 January. The fifth occupant was “Jacob,” a Christian Assyrian-Iraqi, born in Mosul in 1967, now performing arguably the most dangerous job in Iraq: interpreter for American combat forces.
There were a couple of occupied two-story houses just next to the road, and an unfinished house, from which at least one terrorist had run a wire to the explosive.......
......The two families who lived in the two houses closest to the bomb were canvassed but the occupants claimed ignorance. A man from the first house seemed upset about the debris that landed on his roof. The soldiers were amazingly focused and professional, even to the man who seemed mostly to mind the mess. After some such attacks, families get paid by the Americans for the damages.