Posted on 11/09/2008 11:48:30 AM PST by james500
U.S. forces in Afghanistan will "back off" from firing at insurgents if the fighters are using civilian buildings as cover, the U.S. commander in eastern Afghanistan told CNN.
"I've given direct guidance, and so has my boss to me, that if there's any doubt at all that the enemy is firing from a house or building where there might be women and children, that we'll just back off," Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Schloesser, the commanding general of the 101st Airborne Division, told CNN's Barbara Starr.
"That potentially is something that we did not do before, but now because of this increased emphasis, we are doing," he said in an interview at an outpost in Afghanistan's Paktika province near the Pakistani border.
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Sorry, but this is a bad strategy. There’s no way we can win this war if the bad guys are allowed to say “base” each time we attack.
When did we stop using carpet bombing as a strategy, and why?
Message this sends to bad guys: Hide behind women and children, it works!
Isn’t this fighting a war with one hand behind your back?
Might as well pull out now.
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**Isn’t this fighting a war with one hand behind your back?**
NO ... it’s fighting with BOTH HANDS tied behind your back... and a LIVE GRENADE stuffed up your ...
Sounds like we are going back to the Sadr City and Fallujah and those ended up as complete disasters...unbelievable.
NOTED ...from CNN
If CNN was AROUND During WWII... Eastern Half of USA would be Speaking GERMAN, the Western half .. JAPANESE
How soon until we see the first Taliban convoys with women and children tied to the roofs and sides of the trucks to ensure safe passage?
CNN - STFU NOW YOU TREASONOUS B*STARDS!
“..if there’s any doubt at all that the enemy is firing from a house or building where there might be women and children, that we’ll just back off,”
Will that same strategy be employed as an answer to domestic terrorism?
Karzai could end this crap in a minute. Instead of being a muslim first he should man up and put the blame for these incidents on the terrorists, where it belongs, but instead this grifter's got his left hand out shaking down Uncle Sugar for the last nickel.
Posting what I think will lead to eviction from this site.
Sorry sir, it didn’t look like a house or building where there might be women and children, so we leveled it. It looked more like an ammo dump with all that hostile fire coming from it.
“Message this sends to bad guys: Hide behind women and children, it works!”
Sad, but true, so how can we win this way?
Not only is this bad strategy but to ANNOUNCE it to the enemy in advance is truly stupid.
Didn’t you lot learn anything from your adventures in Vietnam?
There is NO SUCH THING as “limited warfare”.
You cannot win if the Enemy gets to call “Pax”.
The Enemedia is not your friend.
The Public DO NOT have the “right to know” everything.
More American soldiers will lose their lives needlessly because of this foolishness. Whoever gave this order ought to be bastinadoed.
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