Posted on 06/25/2010 8:44:27 AM PDT by GoCards
Edited on 06/25/2010 11:06:48 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Published June 25, 2010
| FOXNews.com
June 16: U.S. Central Commander Gen. David Petraeus testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the Senate Armed Services Committee. (AP)
A military source close to Gen. David Petraeus told Fox News that one of the first things the general will do when he takes over in Afghanistan is to modify the rules of engagement to make it easier for U.S. troops to engage in combat with the enemy, though a Petraeus spokesman pushed back on the claim.
Troops on the ground and some military commanders have said the strict rules -- aimed at preventing civilian casualties -- have effectively forced the troops to fight with one hand tied behind their backs.
The military source who has talked with Petraeus said the general will make those changes. Other sources were not so sure, but said they wouldn't be surprised to see that happen once Petraeus takes command.
Perhaps yours might be two minutes slow. My computer calibrates to an NNTP server once a week and it's the same time as the FR server.
We've allowed egg head Congressmen in Washington to fight our wars. We've conditioned ourselves into believing that a bunch of egg heads on Capitol Hill know more than the fighting Generals on the battlefield. This is why we have not won a war since the Second World War and this is why we will never win a war in the foreseeable future.
We no longer fight to pacify the enemy, we don't even fight to win, but rather we bend over backwards to win their 'hearts & minds'!! IMHO that is a losing strategy and nothing more than a death wish on our part.
The problem here is, they've convinced themselves we are the enemy of "freedom". That we are The Great Satan.
My system clock is within a fraction of a second of this:
www.time.gov
FR time was same as mine until that period when FR was down or otherwise hard to get to.
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