The one blessing our troops had in places like Afghanistan and Iraq was close air support that was overwhelming. The Taliban really found out about AC-130 gunships and A-10s. That was the one thing that made “wait until they have taken the first shot” ROE bearable, IMHO.
Now we find out that Hillary, McCain, and Obama screwed that up by sending crap loads of Stingers to Syria that ended up in these other places killing our air support and putting an end to the one edge our troops had.
When did they do that? Heard that the SEALs helo went down from a US made missile. Same thing? Not up on it.