[Gaffer]

When you have to clear a kill shot all the way to Obama, you have lost the battle before it is joined.

[Travis McGee]

Obama is only pretending to fight ISIS.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Like I always say, Washington politicians, lawyers and judges have killed more American military personnel than all of our enemies put together. You can take that to the bank.

[skeeter]

Our insane ROE cost American lives. Period.

I know this doesn't matter to Obama but it sure as hell matters to anyone who loves this country.

[Son House]

Republican debate
SANTORUM: The enemy is a theocracy and their allure is their theocracy.

-Give the objective to defeat the enemy to the Military and let them determine the strategy.

[BuffaloJack]

In Vietnam we could not fire first. This meant that we had to wait until someone shot at us.
How stupid is this?
The only rule a person in combat should need is to kill the enemy by any means available without getting permission and without waiting for the enemy to shoot first.

We will never win a war if the soldier is more afraid of lawyers than the enemy.

[bert]

the rules are tacis prevention of war

if there must be war, it must not be war

[RandallFlagg]

Repeating what I posted on another thread:

It would really be nice if our next President (Hopefully, one of the good guys) would say, “We’re going after ISIS today. There will be no video footage or embedded journalists due to maintenance of OPSEC. The public will learn of our progress through daily briefings in writing, and no questions will be answered by military personnel because they’ll be too busy doing what they do: Killing people and breaking things.”

And it would be called, “Operation Pig’s Blood.”

[Old Sarge]

After all, if soldiers opened fire after a lawyer had deemed the attack outside the rules, they would risk discipline -- even prosecution -- if the engagement went awry.

On the day in 2001, when we had Mullah Omar in our sights as he was fleeing Afghanistan in an ambulance - POSITIVE ID on the target - and a JAG O-5 at CENTCOM overruled the combat commander and left a High-Value Target get away - on that day, I knew we were not serious about prosecuting the War on Terror.

[maddog55]

ROEs for winners:

If it moves... kill it.
You didn’t get them all? Get a bigger bomb.
I don’t care. Level it, in fact level everything.