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As I posted in another thread:

What I believe we need to win are -fighters-.

Fighters who will infiltrate their hideouts and shoot them in the back of the head without warning.

Fighters who will burn the villages that support the Taliban to the ground.

Fighters who will cross the border into Pakistan, find the Al Qaeda hiding there, kill them, and bury them wrapped in pig skins.

America finds this too nasty? OK, fine. Just don’t complain when we’re still slowly bleeding our military in Afghanistan fifteen years from now.....

“...What I believe we need to win are -fighters-...”

We HAVE fighters.

We DON’T have a CinC. We DO have a pathetic, spoiled, self-centered, narcissistic, megalomaniac backed up a subversive political party intent on reducing the country.

There. Fixed it.

A soldier with restrictive ROE can overreact and accidently shoot someone, and then go on trial accused of murder....

..but a UAV can wipe out AQ or taliban figure, along with “collateral damage”,..and things are hunky dory....

Hmm...maybe its time to stick to the hunky dory...

I agree. This is a Special Forces war. This whole thing went to the dogs when they sent in the regular army. Special Forces were doing fine with 15 SF teams equipped with laser designators and on call TAC AIR.They got on by horse , camel, motorcycles and 4 wheelers and obliterated the Taliban in their camps and hide outs. The locals supported them because the locals fight the same way.

That's also why drones are highly effective.They are stealthy, they hit and move out before the Tangos can do anything about it. Regular Army is a sitting target, spread out too thinly, deployed in no mans land surrounded by the enemy, who simply pick away at then and their lines of supply just as in Viet Nam.,p> The dems do not know how to wage war, they have to manhy goals besides victory. All press should be restricted to Kabul, except for correspondents like Michael Yon.

IMHO the regular army in Afghanistan should be deployed along the Pakistan border, with the SF destroying every Tango strong hold they can find in the interior of Afghanistan at their backs, using their previously successful tactics.

And yes, take off those silly troop killing community organizing ROEs, win the war and GTH home.