Posted on 03/13/2012 8:53:43 AM PDT by Eliana Benador
Knock-knock... Is anybody home... anybody at all....???
There are men out there, whose work requires from them to wear a uniform and who are risking their lives so that you, dear Reader, can lead a comfortable life here on mainland.
However, those men and women, are not like isolated mushrooms... they are human beings just like you and I -but they go beyond the call of duty in order to protect us. They decide to leave families, parents, siblings, and what’s worse, their wives or husbands and their little children, all in the name of duty. Therefore, all of us, American civilians, have a responsibility vis-à-vis our men and women in uniform and their families.
“Courageous restraint” has been the initial measure taken in the theatre of the absurd that has slowly but surely being imposed as the suicidal rules of engagement to be followed by our men in the military -who, ironically, find themselves in an equally suicidal position as the enemy they are supposedly fighting. The only difference is that the terrorists, in their great wisdom, are there to fight and kill the enemy and that’s what they do. Whereas in the case of our military it’s all about avoiding civilian enemies, and have to exert self-inflicting suicidal restraining and its degenerated rules of engagement that protect the enemy -rather than go for their jugular -which is what a war is about.
Koran Burning and Total Silence Surrounding Fate of Our Men
What are our men thinking, when they realize that their compatriots are letting them down, while they may be undergoing abuse and a miserable fate under a most liberal, treacherous regime here in America?
One thing is sure: Our military knows that the American people, their families, their neighbors, their classmates, their professors and employers...
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Keeping our troops there will not accomplish anything. These sand bunnies will continue to live in the 7th Century. We need to get the hell out and let them do what they do. At the same time, we need to tell them we will not return unless they attack us again. At that point, they should be told that we will turn their country into glass and get it over with.
What seems to have caused you to excerpt your own blog?
Well stated!!
If you have the ability, prefer vets in employment!
We absolutely need to get our troops out, the soonest possible.
America’s pro-democracy governments have weakened our position worldwide. We forget that we are a Republic and therefore whoever takes power must abide by the Constitution, something that the American people themselves are forgetting, because if they remembered that significant detail they would be going massively and peacefully out to the streets to make sure they were putting pressure on their representatives -who were elected to defend the people’s interests and instead they go out of their way to accommodate this anti-American president and his administration.
That said, decade-long wars should be completely out of our psychological and tactical war program. Anyway, we should not be the police of the world. And instead of that, our system should be of enhancing patriotic education, American values, promoting and facilitating child birth in America, as well as not allowing immigrants to continue coming to change the face of America. In short, we need to nurture the America we inherited from the Founding Fathers.
Do the math.
Two out of every three US soldiers who have died in the 10+years of the Afghanistan war, died in just the past 3 years under Obama and his “touchy/feely” Rules of Engagement.
That means that the average US death tolls under Obama’s RoE have more than quadrupled when compared to the first six+ years under Bush. This, despite the fact that the US’ abilities in the arena of Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities against ground targets have grown exponentially since the early days of the conflict.
We have far greater ability to detect enemy movements, find enemy weapons, and predict enemy strikes than ever before. Yet our US death tolls have skyrocketed.
If we “lose” this war it will have absolutely nothing to do with the capabilities or will of the enemy. We could easily destroy them if we had the will and the leadership. Our course, and our outcome in Afghanistan will be 100% of our own choosing.
If we lose, it's because we mean to lose.
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