[Travis McGee]

Please read this jaw-dropping aricle about the ROE in Afghanistan which causes insurgent bombers caught red-handed to be released to bomb and bomb again until they kill or maim Americans and our allies.

Madness. This will bring a level of morale as bad as I can imagine. Talk about bitter troops. Talk about abandonment of our troops by our generals in the name of PC uber alles.

[Chode]

"screened and a decision is made whether to release the individual, transfer them to appropriate Afghan authorities, or to the detention facility in Parwan [at Bagram Air Base]."

and just exactly WHAT does it take to get sent up the chain???

kill a reporter???

[sergeantdave]

Thanks for the article, Travis.

Diana West is on our side and is a good woman. I worked with her back in the 90s during the private property wars against the fascist pig clinton and that unutterable Nazi pig Bruce Babbitt.

We had that MF Babbitt nailed for terrorism when he brought along his eco-Nazi pigs to blow up the forestry building at Michigan Tech, but the jerks at the FBI refused to follow up. Ditto our state prosecutor.

Babbitt is getting real old, but I don’t want to see this pig die comfortable in a soft and warm bed.

[JDoutrider]

Dead men tell no tales... why “capture” them?

Bring our Brave troops home... NOW!

[DuncanWaring]

The officials said ISAF forces can hold detainees for up to 96 hours, during which time detainees are "screened and a decision is made whether to release the individual, transfer them to appropriate Afghan authorities, or to the detention facility in Parwan [at Bagram Air Base]."

What ever happened to "Blindfold, last cigarette, and summary battlefield execution as an Illegal Combatant"?

[Alberta's Child]

I'm sure I'll get a lot of flack for this blanket statement, but I think anyone would have to be certifiably nuts or dumb as a back of rock to put their life in the hands of the U.S. military leadership (all the way up to the White House).

As I get older, I find myself identifying myself more and more with the Nathaniel character from the movie Last of the Mohicans. He was challenged by a British officer about his reluctance to volunteer for a militia to help the British Army fight the French in 1757. The officer asked him: "You call yourself a patriot, and loyal subject to the crown?!"

. . . to which he replied: "I don't call myself subject to much at all."

[Gritty]

It's time to pull the plug on this clusterf*ck and bring the troops home. All they are doing now is burning American lives and money, for naught.

There are plenty of real enemies they can fight on this side of the ocean. They won't have to look far. They are all over the place. They can start in a place that begins with "W" and ends in "D.C.".

[headstamp 2]

This is willful sacrifice of our people for PC bullshit. We need to leave. These higher ups have absolutely no right to ask the troops to operate this way. This is madness.

[Iris7]

I am an old Viet Nam guy. I have been following the Afghanistan ROE issues.

The reality is that either we clean up the ROE or we must get out. We must make the choice now. McChrystal was right. Petraeus is wrong. This cannot be allowed to go on. If this takes military disobedience of the POTUS, so be it.

What you are watching, folks, is what is known as a “debacle”.