What you have here is an unholy trinity injecting their shared philosophy of ‘spare the civilians at all cost’ – even though those civilians are not US citizens and are in fact complicit in their own misfortune. The new ROE presented by McChrystal and under which operation Khanjar was mounted is nothing less than disgraceful, immoral and fatal for our Marines, Sailors and Soldiers on the ground.
Lest we forget the outcome:
“We are pinned down. We are running low on ammo. We have no air. We’ve lost today,” Marine Maj. Kevin Williams, 37, said through his translator to his Afghan counterpart, responding to the latter’s repeated demands for helicopters.
RIP Major Williams, 9/09/2009
We will never forget those Marines or what caused their deaths. It is complete negligence to leave your men to die like that! Are those in top command more afraid of the press and the liberals then they are of losing their own men? They don't belong in leadership then. There's plenty of GOOD ones where they came from!