Posted on 04/12/2011 5:45:35 PM PDT by Travis McGee
Please read this jaw-dropping aricle about the ROE in Afghanistan which causes insurgent bombers caught red-handed to be released to bomb and bomb again until they kill or maim Americans and our allies.
Madness. This will bring a level of morale as bad as I can imagine. Talk about bitter troops. Talk about abandonment of our troops by our generals in the name of PC uber alles.
Love those geniuses Petraeus and McChristol! And Bush loved this PC crap as much as Obama.
If this is all just a crime to be handled in court,, why don’t we send in the FBI in a Crown Victoria?
We have become a joke.
Nothing about this administration surprises me any longer. Pure evil.
"screened and a decision is made whether to release the individual, transfer them to appropriate Afghan authorities, or to the detention facility in Parwan [at Bagram Air Base]." and just exactly WHAT does it take to get sent up the chain???
kill a reporter???
Good God! WTF!!!
i AM SO LIVID!!!
LETS JUST GET THE f ..OUT NOW.!!
Let the muzzies try something else and we can carpet bomb them to make Dresden in WWII look like childs play!!!
Thanks for the article, Travis.
Diana West is on our side and is a good woman. I worked with her back in the 90s during the private property wars against the fascist pig clinton and that unutterable Nazi pig Bruce Babbitt.
We had that MF Babbitt nailed for terrorism when he brought along his eco-Nazi pigs to blow up the forestry building at Michigan Tech, but the jerks at the FBI refused to follow up. Ditto our state prosecutor.
Babbitt is getting real old, but I don’t want to see this pig die comfortable in a soft and warm bed.
That's our Commanding Buffoon on the left.
He's gone native. (spells it "The Holy Q'uran" now in correspondence. Our troops are so screwed.
General Betrayus was chosen for a reason.
My thoughts exactly. I never thought I’d ever be saying this, but pull the troops out, and carpet bomb the muzzies next time they put up their heads. We are morally incapable of fighting them effectively in any other way, and our troops shouldn’t be subjected to this reckless disregard for their lives.
No effing way. Is this a joke? Seriously.
Dead men tell no tales... why “capture” them?
Bring our Brave troops home... NOW!
That’s not cool, seeing our women dressed in modified, ass-kissing burkas.
What’s cool is dead enemy by as many numbers as necessary.
semper fi, sailor.
Remember the recently swept-under-the-rug scandal of “rogue” army “killer teams?”
(Remember when our troops were ALWAYS on “killer teams?” When killing the enemy was their job?)
Connect the dots between this “release” policy and soldiers on “midnight mayhem” missions.
A blind man can see what’s going on, with or without a NOD.
Our troops are not in that business anymore. It’s the New COIN, coined by Petreus. Armed Peace Corps. Hearts and Minds on steroids. Enemy can put down a weapon in a firefight and walk away, we can’t shoot them. WE let them try try again until they kill some of us. That is the Petreaus Plan: to convert them to niceness by our display of niceness. Medals for taking bullets without firing back.
>>This will bring a level of morale as bad as I can imagine.
I am not at all sure this isn’t intentional. It is certainly a top Occam’s Razor explanation.
It is time to get out of Afghanistan. Actually, time was up probably 7-8 years ago. We should have stopped at “punitive expedition” and not gotten into “nation building”.
What ever happened to "Blindfold, last cigarette, and summary battlefield execution as an Illegal Combatant"?
As I get older, I find myself identifying myself more and more with the Nathaniel character from the movie Last of the Mohicans. He was challenged by a British officer about his reluctance to volunteer for a militia to help the British Army fight the French in 1757. The officer asked him: "You call yourself a patriot, and loyal subject to the crown?!"
. . . to which he replied: "I don't call myself subject to much at all."
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