[huldah1776]

The ROE are not in place to win the war against jihad. Plain and simple.

[Grampa Dave]

Obamaganda must have some of LBJ’s dna in his gene pool.

LBJ loved to created deadly ROE’s for those who served under him.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

King Barry’s ROE are in place for the purpose of ridding America of its true patriots. I think about the nearly 20 SEALs aboard that one Chinook helicopter (on 08/06/11) almost every day.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

Troop death increases are also because the enemy feels emboldened and empowered knowing America’s president shares their goals.

[Dapper 26]

Our ROEs in Nam were no way near as ridiculous as those in Afghanistan. Additionally, we were not subjected to the scrutiny now endured by our troops on the ground. We spent weeks at a time without REMFs around and we definitely did not have an attorney for every rifleman as they appear do have now. We see them, we shoot them and blow up their tunnels and gear. They shoot at us from the bushes, we blow up the bushes. They ambush us, we ambush them. If there were no civilians or water buffaloes in the fields as we traveled on the roadways, it was safeties “off”.

[444Flyer]

This has been going on for years, even under Bush. Seems like it become much worse under Obama. Giving the battle advantage to...(surprise!)

the Islamic enemy.

[tomkat]

Imagine that .. REMFs and gutless political pussies got guys killed/maimed !

[Nextrush]

Afghanistan was Vietnam and Korea from the beginning under W Bush and got worse with Obama with limits on what our forces could do to interdict the Taliban supply line from Pakistan.

The Pakistani government intelligence agency created the Taliban that took over Afghanistan and gave Bin Laden his base of operations.

This is an absurd international police action with American forces under the ISAF umbrella. The supply lines for both sides run through the same country-Pakistan.

I would pull out or do what it takes to win.

Pakistan has nukes so neither Republicans or Democrats would fight an all out war to defeat the Taliban just like fear of Soviet nukes drove the Vietnam “war effort” involving no victory.

[lentulusgracchus]

[Art.] ... prompting national security analysts to assert that coinciding stricter rules of engagement led to more deaths.

Brother Barack's gift of piety to his brother jihadis: American dead.

[itssme]

Could someone explain what the ROE were during WWII, the Korean War and in Vietnam? So then under Bush, the ROE began to change to protect the muzzies, because Bush had a connection to them? And what was that connection? And now the ROE today favor the muzzies because obama is a muzzie sympathizer, which to me says he's consorting WITH the enemy against his own military and citizens of the US.

[RWB Patriot]

Maybe when the day comes that the military is expected to be the president’s bully boys, they’ll remember how much of a $hit he took on them after sending them to fight for his re-election campaign.

[RetiredArmy]

They did it to us in Nam. Right before I was wounded, we went out on our final mission, before the 4th Infantry Division was to come home in December 1970, we were TOLD that on this final mission, we were NOT to shoot at anyone, nobody, unless we FIRST CHECKED THEIR ID CARDS!!! EVEN if they were in their nice little black PJ’s AND carrying an AK-47, we WERE NOT TO ENGAGE them unless we first check their &#^&@@*^ ID cards!!! Our platoon sergeant told us if anyone did not shoot everyone of them, he would shoot us!!! He said to shoot every stinking one of them, and THEN we would check their stinking ID cards. By the way, we were all wondering, WHO THE HECK ISSUED ID CARDS TO A BUNCH OF STINKING VC out in the wilderness?????