I used to get all worked up about that. On further reflection, I don't blame 'em. The kill ratios are anywhere from 10 to 20 to 1 in our favor. Pretty soon, they run out of willing and able combatants. If the tables were turned, would we nuke 'em? Sure. Between using children and using nukes - there's a difference, but it's not that big a distinction.
The issue here is that our ROE's are predicated on them behaving a certain way. If they breach that unwritten understanding, perhaps our ROE's need to resemble the chevauchee. It's not as if raiding, killing and burning is foreign to the Arab experience - it's having that done to them that's foreign.
“It’s not as if raiding, killing and burning is foreign to the Arab experience - it’s having that done to them that’s foreign.”
I would have to respectfully disagree.
Beyond the attacks on Coalition Military personnel and US contractors working within the PSD realm - what hey did to each other in their attempt to fill the vacuum of Saddam’s exit was something not even Rob Zombie could come up with in his horror movies...I saw it first hand and it still effects greatly...ROE’s are just one element in multiple host of them. In my experienced opinion, we have been forced to combat Islam because of its past and current track record on the tragedy of targeting innocent lives - I have a great need to protect my family and nation as a whole - where they seek destruction at all levels...there is huge difference between an worthless Arab and those serving US interests. In the end - it’s about control and who controls what - just like Saddam all the way back to Muhammad and the tribal society that was intertwined and covered by a religious cloak called Islam.