U.S. Soldiers Urged Not to Shoot Taliban at Night so Locals Can Sleep

Breitbart ^ | 10/05/12 | AWR Hawkins

[DFG]

Reports indicate U.S. soldiers and British Royal Marines have been urged to show "courageous constraint" by not shooting Taliban members spotted planting IEDs.

The reason? Shooting them might disturb the locals.

This news comes out on the heels of an investigation into the death of Royal Marine Sergeant Peter Rayner, whom witnesses say watched the Taliban plant IEDs at night but was ordered not to engage them. Families of other soldiers and Royal Marines are telling stories of how their loved ones were not allowed to use mortars or night illumination when they came across Taliban members in an area full of IEDs.

The reason given was that "the sound of shooting 'might wake up and upset the locals.'"

This is not "courageous restraint" -- this is appeasement.

[Signalman]

I wonder what this guy would have to say about this policy.

[tet68]

This is not “courageous restraint” — this is INSANITY!

[Jyotishi]

Maybe the soldiers should sing lullabies over loudspeakers during the night.

[stevie_d_64]

“When you put your hand, into a bunch of goo, that a moment before wass your best friends face...You’ll know what to do...”

Besides...Seems to me we own the night, and the faster the “locals” cough up the bad guys, the faster they’ll get their beauty rest...

[jazusamo]

I wonder what this guy would have to say about this policy.

I believe he'd say fire that bastard Dempsey.

[InsidiousMongo]

I have a better idea. Every CO out there orders their chopper units to blast ride of the Valkyries over loud speakers during the hours of midnight, 4AM and a carpet bombing at 4PM during Mecca facing hours. Now that is how to fight a war.

[yarddog]

Alexander the Great conquered the area of Afghanistan in the 300s BC.

I bet if he operated in the same way we are, he would never have made it out of Macedonia.

[elkfersupper]

Okay, then SCREW the locals.

We can and should retreat to our own borders and let these nutballs kill each other off in the Middle East.

[madison10]

Forget lullabies, how ‘bout “Onward Christian Soldiers?” That’ll help everyone sleep. ;)

[married21]

Yeah. Do they really think the local people will sleep well knowing that the Taliban is running around completely unchallenged?

What if our local police had that attitude? Nope, better not catch gangbangers at night. The locals are trying to sleep.

Somebody could do a cute cartoon of this, showing that the war hours are sun-up to sundown only, Mon.-Fri.

[gaijin]

OK so we should build them girls schools, not shoot back when attacked, and not shoot at night cuz it’s noisy.

And the people telling us this are HEROIN DEALERS.

Just wow.

[LibWhacker]

Sounds like another Obama ROE.

[Farmer Dean]

Issue suppressed MP5’s and carry on.

[knarf]

I had to keep clicking to get;

" U.S. military chiefs ordered troops to exercise 'courageous constraint' and even warned them they could be charged with murder if they shot any Taliban without permission from above."

What raghead lovin' bastard ordered this ?

That's aiding and abetting, IMO and is a treasonable offense

[Joe 6-pack]

"Use a silencer."

[mojito]

Remember: A tired Muslim is a crabby Muslim.

[elkfersupper]

Okay, then SCREW the locals.

We can and should retreat to our own borders and let these nutballs kill each other off in the Middle East.

I went through a period of trying to eradicate the oockroaches, spiders, snakes, mice, vinegaroons, coyotes, wild dogs, wild cats, etc. around and in my house before I realized the futility and just left them alone.

Guess what? I now have less of those vermin.

[PLMerite]

Too loud, no problem:

[faithhopecharity]

This is how to deliberately lose wars and enable terrorists to win, prosper, and grow stronger and stronger, in furtherance of the next Islamic world-wide Caliphate. As such, this is a very clever, and effective, foreign policy.

This is also how to force many patriotic voters who favor letting our troops win their wars... into demanding their with-drawl instead (if our soldiers aren’t permitted to win, or even defend themselves anymore, then for goodness’ sakes what else can any decent human being say but “Bring them home?”). As such, this is a very clever domestic political strategy.

We need to give credit where credit is due, even though we may totally disagree with the direction America is being taken (down down down). Those in charge DO know what they are doing, and they are quite clever at it, too.

Vote in November!