I read and article today by an aid worker in Afghanistan, who said it’s time for them to leave. That person’s point was that this was a mob of regular unarmed villagers who attacked, not the Taliban or a warlord’s henchmen. The weapons that they got were taken from their first victims, the UN guards. He stated if we now have to open fire on unarmed protesters in order to adequately protect themselves, it’s time to go.
We should get these aid groups out of harm’s way and then change the rules of engagement. The mullahs have been allowed to have it easy. They whip up their people and send them out to kill others and/or die in suicide attacks. Meanwhile, the Mullah’s stay safely behind. The new ROE should simply be that every Mullah who incites violence is to be treated as a terrorist in that war zone and as such, killed within a very short period of time afterwards, either by a Spec Ops “A Team” sniper, Predator drone missile or a GPS bomb dropped from 20,000 feet, or some other munition suitable to the occasion. If they incite violence from the mosque, it’s to be no longer treated as a place of worship, but as a military or terrorist command structure and taken out. If these ROEs were put into place, I have a feeling that we’d quickly find the Mullahs to be far less talkative with a corresponding drop in violence. That said, we must never forget what this religion is all about and protect ourselves accordingly.
Well said. But also include the financial supporters of the mullahs.
Our real enemies are the radical clerics, and the wealthy Islamics who finance them. Without finance, things would quiet down real fast.
“That person’s point was that this was a mob of regular unarmed villagers who attacked”
Ahhh—the “moderate” muslims that the dems love to love, I presume?