We Let Them Go Again
What do you do if you find dozens of terrorists in one place at one time, and you've got the drop on them? If you're the PC Washington attorneys advising the brass at the pentagon, you do nothing.
Well, that's exactly what happened in Afghanistan recently. Because the ground combat rules of engagement in Afghanistan disallow any contact with the enemy if the enemy is in a cemetery, the opportunity was missed. The terrorists were unaware of the unmanned drone that was filming the event and sending real-time images back the to US command.
Have we learned nothing? For eight years the Clinton administration found convenient reasons not to engage the enemy, and the result is we now have an entrenched and emboldened enemy who understands, and actually depends on, these kinds of self imposed restraints.
Let me be clear. We are at war. The enemy is Islamofascist extremism. Our standing ROE should be to seek out and engage the enemy, and kill him. Every one of them. Period.
Now US operatives and ground troops will have to deal with it, at a far costlier price.
Regarding the comment below:
ReplyDeleteWell, that's exactly what happened in Afghanistan recently. Because the ground combat rules of engagement in Afghanistan disallow any contact with the enemy if the enemy is in a cemetery, the opportunity was missed. The terrorists were unaware of the unmanned drone that was filming the event and sending real-time images back the to US command.
hmmm? I say they were in the right place, at the right time. Where else better to do away with them than in a Cemetary? Who thought that was a good idea? All someone had to do was dig a hole and shove 'em in! Saves time ;-)