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'I Didn't Join to Be Sacrificed': U.S. Troops Fed Up with Risky Afghanistan Strategy
breitbart.com ^ | 11 Feb 2014 | Billy & Karen Vaughn

Posted on 02/12/2014 2:10:53 PM PST by drypowder

U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan are now forced to fight a two-fronted war. Before each deployment, these soldiers understand fully that day after day they will do battle against relentless terrorists with shifting loyalties and unspeakable hatred. But what none of them could have foreseen was the killing field that would open from their rear: the Continental United States.

Our government’s incessant tightening of already restrictive ROE (Rules of Engagement), compounded by the failed COIN (Counterinsurgency) strategy—also known as “winning hearts and minds”—has made an otherwise primitive enemy formidable.

Our best and brightest come home in body bags as politicians and lawyers dine over white linen tablecloths; writing, modifying, and re-modifying these lethal rules. Rules that favor the enemy rather than the American soldier. Rules so absurd they’re difficult to believe until you hear the same stories over and again from those returning from battle.

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TOPICS: War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; afghanroe; afghanwar; battle; commanderinchief; engagement; military; obama; president; roe; rulesofenguagement; soldiers; troops
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The fraud in WH who is control of the US military is rumored to be a Muslim. His military dictates demonstrate without question that cares more about any Muslim than he does for any Americans.
1 posted on 02/12/2014 2:10:54 PM PST by drypowder
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The fraud in the WH who is in control of the US military is rumored to be a Muslim. His military dictates demonstrate without question that he cares more about any Muslim than he does for any Americans.


2 posted on 02/12/2014 2:12:20 PM PST by drypowder
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Only al Qaeda inside the White House (by undocumented
fraud) could get the PENTAGON to arm the armies
that attacked it (al Qaeda for those not paying attention).

History will show that the Pentagon PROTECTED Hasan
more than the Ambassador.


3 posted on 02/12/2014 2:13:09 PM PST by Diogenesis
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The fraud in WH who is control of the US military is rumored to be a Muslim. His military dictates demonstrate without question that cares more about any Muslim than he does for any Americans.

It's not all Hussein's fault. The ROE under Bush was pretty bad as well. All of our leaders (and Obama) will sacrifice as many Americans as uit takes to appease the PC Gods.

4 posted on 02/12/2014 2:14:29 PM PST by Sans-Culotte ( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
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It almost seems the our military is purposely being demoralized.
But to what end?
5 posted on 02/12/2014 2:15:59 PM PST by oldbrowser (Obamacare is Obama's Great Leap Forward)
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To: drypowder

I’ll say this much-the left has surely put our military in a “damned if they do/damned if they don’t” spot. For just one instance-this would be a great time for all those “socially engineered” military members to step up to the combat plate, but it would also put the only people who could really fight the enemy if their hands weren’t tied, in jeopardy. White males could stop joining, but then our military is useless. All the women who say they want to be in combat (for promotion, is the true reason) could go fight, but they’d endanger already endangered troops.


6 posted on 02/12/2014 2:16:40 PM PST by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: oldbrowser

To create a force which is good for the main purpose-to turn against future unarmed American citizens.


7 posted on 02/12/2014 2:17:58 PM PST by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: Sans-Culotte

Plus they have lawyers(Jag political officers) looking at them real time..just like the USSR. From safe positions they are pulling the strings.


8 posted on 02/12/2014 2:19:23 PM PST by Oldexpat
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To: drypowder

For those readers who served in Vietnam - there is nothing new to be read here.

The man on the front lines who is risking everything is controlled by a thing in the rear that is risking nothing.

The worse thing a warrior can ever see is another warrior who has changed because of his promotion and become a REMF of a perfumed prince and is making decisions for his personal promotion vice keeping is ex-superiors and ex-subordinates alive.

And, unfortunately this track was entirely predictable from the outset.

If I were king, everyone who desires to write the rules of engagement, military or civilian, male or female, would get to field test his proposed rules for six months as the point man. But then, that would clear out too many REMFs/perfumed princes and how would the military bureaucratic empires ever survive?


9 posted on 02/12/2014 2:21:19 PM PST by Nip (BOHEICA and TANSTAAFL - both seem very appropriate today.)
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To: drypowder

The JCS should have resigned long ago. That would have started the dominoes tumbling that would have brought this administration down. Too late now. The general staff is full of 0-appoinred wimps and careerists. Even CMC is a worthless punk.


10 posted on 02/12/2014 2:24:06 PM PST by clintonh8r (Don't twerk me, Bro!)
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To: drypowder

They’ve got a point, IMHO. The U.S. military is being Benghazied.


11 posted on 02/12/2014 2:24:14 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (ObamaCare. The "global warming" of healthcare plans.)
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To: drypowder

Do you guys think that this would be a good time to remove the President (current and future) from position of Commander-In-Chief of the armed forces? We’ve regrettably had nothing but bureaucrats in a position of absolute authority over the military and we need professionals.


12 posted on 02/12/2014 2:25:24 PM PST by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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U.S. Troops Fed Up with Risky Afghanistan Strategy

You can't have a strategy without a goal. What's the goal in Afghanistan? Secure the minerals for Red China? Keep the opium flowing?

13 posted on 02/12/2014 2:29:02 PM PST by Count of Monte Fisto (The foundation of modern society is the denial of reality.)
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"The fraud in WH who is control of the US military is rumored to be a Muslim. His military dictates demonstrate without question that cares more about any Muslim than he does for any Americans."

And, so far, without any consequences from the military. Obama has spent serious time and resources remaking the US military into a force that is loyal to him. Has he succeeded is an open question. Will they follow him, no matter what the orders?

14 posted on 02/12/2014 2:36:15 PM PST by Truth29
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To: drypowder

“Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy.” — Henry Kissinger

When I was in the military, I never met one, not one, Veteran who enlisted to fight for Socialism.


15 posted on 02/12/2014 2:36:46 PM PST by B4Ranch (Name your illness, do a Google & YouTube search with "hydrogen peroxide". Do it and be surprised.)
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To: Nip

I agree.

(PS: it’s ‘BOHICA’)


16 posted on 02/12/2014 2:37:55 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
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17 posted on 02/12/2014 2:40:15 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: drypowder

Obama has had neither the political gonads or the moral decency to have admitted that any continued sacrifice of American lives in Afghanistan would be, and has been dishonorable once he quit caring about any true success there.

His half-hearted commitment to a surge there was just that, half-hearted, forcing politics in the Pentagon to please him to accept less of a ommitment than they knew was needed. As his half-hearted commitment proved it was not going to succeed, it became CYA time for the PR machines at the Pentagon and the WH, just until they could pull out and call defeat - returng the Taliban to the position of ascendent power in Afghanistan - a “victory”.

Like Eastwood said, Obama is a hoax.

I say all this because had Obama had the moral clarity to take the political hits from ending - immediately, any pretense that he was committed to any real victory in Afghanistan, it would have bumped him up a few notches in stature. Instead, he fulfilled my expectations of him, which were very low.

Was any of our wartime successes in the past inevitable? No. They succeeded when our commitment knew no bounds. In WWII we succeded because we were committed enough to winning that we chose to throw everything we could into doing that. Any “superior tactics” or equipment were a result of that commitment, a response to that committment, without which many of them would never have arisen. I have firmly believed that only such a committment was going to clean house in Afghanistan, but neither administration wanted to or believed they would succeed at asking for it. So they made a good “coaltion of the willing” show of it, but, in my mind, have seldom been fully committed to it - at least not as much as their PR machines would have us believe.


18 posted on 02/12/2014 2:41:37 PM PST by Wuli
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To: oldbrowser

“It almost seems the our military is purposely being demoralized.
But to what end?”

“My task—the Party’s task—was to organize defeat. From defeat would spring the Revolution”
Yevgrav Zhivago

Our military is attempting to be defeated-by someone, and by Valerie Jarrett.


19 posted on 02/12/2014 2:43:13 PM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: Diogenesis

I’m curious. Have we spent more ensuring Hasan has a fair trial than we did ensuring Stevens had proper security.


20 posted on 02/12/2014 2:50:12 PM PST by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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