MORE ON TROOPS, CIC, MIRANDA RIGHTS AND POLITICAL CORRECTION
NOT RELATED TO HASAN.... :-P
From 444FLYER
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2393662/posts?page=132#132
Navy SEALs Face Assault Charges for Capturing Most-Wanted Terrorist
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 2:41:28 PM · 132 of 638
444Flyer to NoObamaFightForConservatives; All
HE seeks to destroy our military.
Obama orders Miranda rights in Afghanistan
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2388364/posts
Reading Miranda Rights to Terrorists Is Crazy and Stupid, Say GOP Congressmen
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=49738
Miranda rights for terrorists: Next, toothbrushes and teddy bears!
U.S. TROOPS BATTLE BOTH TALIBAN AND THEIR OWN RULES
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387602/posts
New Obama Military Rules of Engagement:, Dont shoot back
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2384383/posts
RULES OF ENGAGEMENT REVISITED
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346439/posts
OBAMAS RULES OF ENGAGEMENT IN AFGHANISTAN COSTING OUR TROOPS LIVES
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2335891/posts
THE RULES MURDERING OUR TROOPS
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2347085/posts
Then there is this:
No Rush to Escalate (war kills off great reform movements)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2355050/posts
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http://www.nato.int/isaf/docu/official_texts/Tactical_Directive_090706.pdf
...I recognize that the carefully controlled and disciplined employment of force entails risks to our troops...
...The Taliban cannot militarily defeat us - but we can defeat ourselves...
This is all that comes to my mind when I read that:
We are pinned down. We are running low on ammo. We have no air. Weve lost today, Marine Maj. Kevin Williams, 37, said through his translator to his Afghan counterpart, responding to the latters repeated demands for helicopters.
Were pinned down: 4 U.S. Marines die in Afghan ambush
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2335142/posts
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9/10/09
U.N. LAWYERS TARGET U.S. TROOPS
Justice: As if fighting a war in Afghanistan isnt hard enough, ambitious global prosecutors have rolled into Kabul looking to charge U.S. troops. Intentional or not, such legalism will sap U.S. morale as it did in Vietnam.
At about the time NATOs new secretary-general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, warned NATOs European members against an early pullout, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the top prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, whose body is charged with looking for international war criminals, announced he was looking for new clients from anyone with a grievance in Afghanistan.
At a briefing Wednesday in The Hague, Moreno-Ocampo said he had launched a new war crimes inquiry, seeking information about torture especially a European obsession and had already mined the human rights groups for stories. He added he was also very open to more information from foreign governments.
Oh, hed been evenhanded in his Monday-morning battlefield quarterbacking of course, promising hed prosecute both Taliban and NATO troops as moral equals.
But it doesnt take a genius to know what the spotlight-loving attorney (who once launched his own reality TV show back in Argentina) is really after: Americans in the dock as war criminals.
The atmosphere that makes a prosecutor like Moreno-Ocampo ambitious enough to go after Americans instead of a real monster like, say, Fidel Castro, can only occur when the Wests will has weakened, as Rasmussen warned.
After all, if a war to defend our civilization can be reduced to a series of police-brutality cases, then Afghanistan isnt about victory...
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=505775
U.S. Softens Hostility to International Criminal Court
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390346/posts