"One soldier shows me the list of new regulations the platoon was given. “Patrol only in areas that you are reasonably certain that you will not have to defend yourselves with lethal force,” the laminated card reads. For a soldier who has traveled halfway around the world to fight, that’s like telling a cop he should only patrol in areas where he knows he won’t have to make arrests. “Does that make any ****ing sense?” Pfc. Jared Pautsch. “We should just drop a ****ing bomb on this place. You sit and ask yourself: What are we doing here?"
We have lost this war. A poster CPL Ingram should hang in obama's office to let him understand the consequences of his decisions.
But the only problem is that the WH has put restrictive measure on the military leaders there who in turned put restrictive measures on the troops...the WH approves of these measures!
I hope he gets fired because he’s Zero’s butt boy.
It must have been hard for the President to find a guy that would fight a war the way he wanted it fought.
The only way he can redeem himself is to quit go public and take down Zero.
Speaking again about the intolerable Rules of Engagement from the incompetent Kenyan the White House. Ping.
the buck stops with the CIC...who has no intention of winning this war.
Don’t ya just long for the days when a President was also a war veteran?
The ROE would be bring guns, bullets, more bullets, all your friends with guns and bullets. and kill anything that even remotely looked like the enemy.
Why are we determined to make the same mistakes we made in Vietnam over and over and over and over again?
Those who don’t know history doomed to repeat it ping....http://www.historynet.com/air-force-colonel-jacksel-jack-broughton-air-force-general-john-d-jack-lavelle-testing-the-rules-of-engagement-during-the-vietnam-war.htm
After “Lone Survivor”, I CANNOT BELIEVE we still have these INSANE rules of engagement. This needs to change immediately and if McChrystal doesn’t see that, he should go. Unfortunately, I don’t think we will see a change until O is gone in 2012. How many troops have to die unnecessarily before that?
How do we know the ROE aren’t coming from OBAMA???? That would be MY guess.
Obama’s ROE are similar to his reported attitude about the border. EVERYTHING has a political agenda for him. If we started wining in Iraq and Afghanistan, Obama would have no reason to cut and run. That is always what he had in mind and only changed to appease for a short while.
A matter of SOP for our politically correct, head-in-the-sand, and a$$-in-the-wind Leaders.
I heard from a reliable source on the ground over there that when the reports and requests filtered up through the two, three, and four star generals, the four star boys refused to act on anything that might be a PC problem.
Rush discussing all this right now- he’s heard that
A- McChrystal wrote these ROE’s and/or
B- McChrystal hates the ROE’s and has let the Pentagon know it
Take your choice..
Micromanagement favoring nebulous diplomacy over getting the job done and protecting our troops. Victory abandoned in favor of stalemate as the highest possible goal.
That and more is the essence of why we lost an eminently winnable war in Viet Nam.