It's bothering me that our brave field commanders might become loathe to make hazardous, risky, daring decisions involving their troops for fear that bad outcomes would invite leftist politicians, the enemedia, even our questionable FBI to descend on them en masse to investigate them, even get them drummed out of the service or court-martialed.
We know the Left is attempting this at the moment in the Niger ambush event.
This is scary stuff.
We've been so happy that the "rules of engagement" have been changed from Obama's do-nothing mandates to more aggressive rules for confronting the enemy.
However, this savage politicization whirling around the Niger ambush will, I fear, result in a setback for aggressive US troop action in combat and a return to the Obama ways.
Did every action or skirmish performed by US troops in WW2 that turned out badly result in President Roosevelt, the DC houses of congress and J. Edgar Hoover conducting witch-hunts and second-guessing investigations of who specifically was to blame for battlefield loss here, or a raid or foray there?
Keep the politicians and the slavering media out of this...and let the Army conduct its investigation without the leftists pressuring them in their work.
We here at FR know who they're really after, anyway.
Leni
Probably something special, since we’ve already heard from commanders on the ground that it’s just the opposite: Trump is giving the commanders full reign.
Thomas Wictor, on Twitter, has excellent insights on this engagement. These guys were special forces, likely a 12-man team. The fought approximately 40 enemy.
Just what happened in Viet Nam. Pols and the media, especially Cronkite, brought the VN War down!
Yeah... Like when they investigated Benghazi ... yeah... it took about a year + ... with questionable results. Of course the petrol behind this investigative drive is John McCain; he seems ready to destroy the country if it destroys Donald Trump.
Please LORD, save us while there is still time!