Yes, but McCrystal accepted them without even a whimper. When he accepted them Onada and his gang of angry commies knew they had him by the you know what.
No way a successful war can be fought without so-called innocent civilians getting in the way. When you tell soldiers who’re being shot at to think before shooting back you’ve lost the war.
And what was with his running around after the two gasoline tankers were blown up apologizing to everyone in and out of sight for the deaths of “innocent civilian”. I defy the man to explain to me just how he knew they were “innocent”. Oh, what was it these so called “innocents” were doing? They were helping themselves to stolen gasoline. And what was it they were going to do with the stolen gas? I’m sure they had no other intention then to fuel their cook stoves, generators or whatever.
Give me a break! McCrystal has broken faith with American soldiers.
I think it went down this way: Obama and Gates laid down the new ROE. McChrystal said fine but you gotta send lots more troops. Obama screwed him on troops and now McC will be the fall guy. Sound plausible?
The war was lost in November 2001, and zero's ROEs have nothing to do with it. His ROEs will increase the COST of defeat, but the war was lost the day Operation Infinite Justice was renamed, lest it anger Allah.
The sad thing is that George W. Bush could have had anything he asked for when he addressed the Congress on September 16, 2001, and he didn't have the imagination or the balls to ask for enough.
Everything else, including the man calling himself "Barack Obama", follows from that.