I’m sorry to say that this will be increasingly common.
Obama’s rules of engagement are a return to micromanagement of a kind that characterized the LBJ years in Vietnam.
Our troops are put in an impossible position, basically prevented from defending themselves. And if they DO defend themselves, they put themselves in danger of a courtmartial.
As Eisenhower told JFK, don’t start a war unless you intend to win it. If you don’t want to do the things necessary to win it, then it would be better to pull out. Otherwise, we are sacrificing the lives of our troops for nothing.
He won't let our troops have air cover - and in the valleys of the Kunar, that is deadly.
August was the deadliest month of the war for our troops and Sept is following suit.
Where is the MSM NOW!
Dear Leader is more concerned about killing enemies than our troops = muzzie sympathizer and Traitor in Chief. I repeat: damn him to hell
Zero’s hero, Jimmie Carter, established really stupid rules of engagement for our Navy in the Med—our pilots could not return fire on aircraft that fired on them. Libyan MIG pilots made great sport of coming up and taking a shots at US Navy fighters, then turning tail and heading back into Libyan territory, knowing that the US Navy pilots were prohibited from firing back. Fortunately, the election of Ronald Reagan brought common sense back into play and he immediately threw out the coward Carter’s rules of engagement. Much to the surprise of the Libyans, their first encounter with the USN after January 20, 1981, resulted in 5 or 6 Libyan jets being splashed. Not surprisingly, the Libyan harassment immediately stopped.