Posted on 06/26/2011 5:22:27 AM PDT by huldah1776
I think he’s more happy and satisfied than unconcerned.
That's a powerful statement. Think I'll share it with a few of my vet buddies.
My only son begins his first tour next year. I have a lot of respect for Petraeus, but these ROE to me are unacceptable especially when I read this:
Corrupt Afghan courts release most Taliban fanatics seized by UK troops: Report
Afghanistan Sun
Monday 27th June, 2011
(ANI)
Afghanistan’s courts have freed over 1,000 Taliban fighters seized by British troops in the past year, it has emerged.
According to the Sun, the corrupt and shambolic legal system in Helmand province has convicted fewer than one in 20 murderous insurgents.
A military source said that Helmands’ justice system is not capable enough to process and convict many cases.
“The Helmand justice system is next to useless - and it’s down to a mixture of corruption, inepitutde and a lack of capacity to process and convict so many cases,” the paper quoted the military source, as saying.
“It is also bad for our morale, as there is little more dispiriting than seeing all our hard work in finding and catching some really evil people go to waste when they are freed just as fast,” the source added.
In the past year, just 82 out of 1,175 suspected insurgents arrested by British soldiers were convicted and sentenced, the paper said. (ANI)
This article is from April of this year, nothing has changed. However it will make you want to scream!
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