Do you think that these wussified rules of engagement started with Obama??
I have a general rule of thumb that the reason something is being done, is to get the results you see it producing.
So what’s the effect of this endless war on America’s military? Of the insane ROEs? Of the complete lack of a final goal? Of the protection of Muslims by TSA? Of the use of the Patriot Act generally against Americans at home? Of the massive spread of DHS into every area of civilian life?
Those effects are the reason for this war, precisely because those effects are the results of the war. It need not be more complicated than that, and I don’t believe it is.
“In the first seven plus years of war in Afghanistan (October 2001 December 2008) we lost 630 U.S. soldiers. In early 2009, this administration authorized the implementation of the COIN strategy. Over the next five years, the U.S. death toll skyrocket to 2,292.”
God almighty,where’s the outrage?
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