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Monday, June 04, 2007
General Petreas, Rules of Engagement endanger our troops!
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From Crusader Rabbit, this is not a platform for leftist tripe.
I thought Petraeus was the man to lead the surge, from what i heard he was making real progress in Iraq. Perhaps not.
ReplyDeleteLast night we went down in the basement to watch "Black Hawk Down." It was very realistic and very close to factual events. During the movie, I heard the old "do not fire until fired upon." See, THAT is the whole problem. If you're going into harm's way, and you know that there are armed gunmen, as in the case of Mogadishu, you should be firing on the enemy BEFORE you are shot at.
ReplyDeleteThere's also the case of women and children being in the way, too. Imagine what crap ROE the Israelis have, knowing full well that Hamas and Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade take along children for the ride into their excursions for attacks against the IDF, and they can't shoot back because children are in the way.
I'd be shooting everything in sight, even children, if I knew that my life were in danger. Only thing is, BBC is always there, ready to cover the scoop that an IDF soldier shot and killed a child.
THIS emobodies the biggest problem that we have - facing an enemy that will drag women and children into war with them, using them as human shields. Sorry, but collateral damage should be the focus, and lay the blame on the enemy that brings non-combatants into battle is a cowardly act in itself.
Thanks for the kind recognition here.
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Happy June.
eric
The military serves at the direction of their civilian leaders. Ultimately, the ROE at any given time is controlled by our politicians. Having sworn to uphold the orders of their superiors, all military, including the top brass must comply. One follows orders or one doesn’t. The only real option officers have is to resign under protest, but that is an action that may only replace one officer with an even more politically correct office. Many O’s stay to do the best they can to protect their men.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you completely that the current ROE costs American lives that could be spared by a realistic military driven ROE. Not only that, a PC ROE only encourages the enemy.
We ARE engaged in a total war for western survival, but for their own small reasons the politicians continue to play politics while the Jihad is advancing. I dread to think what it will take to wake up the west. We need more politicians imbued with the warrior spirit and less with protecting their own sorry butts.
Hi Beach Girl,
ReplyDeleteHow are you doing my friend, you are absolutely right about the military not being run like it used to be back around the WWII days. My favorite General back then Was General George S. Patton, you fight to make the other poor saps die for their country is his very words.
Phil, I love Patton and was glad that George C. Scott "played" a better Patton than our wonderful General did.
ReplyDeleteEric - you could leave the link so others could click over there. I'll give the cite a look. I'm so behind on updating my links.
MK - he is there for the surge and doing welll, it's just that our military is hamstrung by the cowardly Congress. Petreas is good but he can take the issue to the civilian leaders for consideration - if they want to win that is. I will hate to see our military brought home in "defeat" at the feet of the Dhimmicats.
Thank you all for taking the time to stop by. I appreciate your time very much.
Just ask any Marine what he/she thinks about our current ROE. It's downright dangerous.
ReplyDeleteTo further that, our generals nowadays won't do anything without word from MadDill AFB.
I distinctly recall when we were down with Operation Provide Comfort in December 1992. I was on the white flagship, LaSalle. CNN News was on the Mogadishu beach that early morning when we first came in there. Two tomcats from the USS Ranger came in on a low approach, and CNN reported that elements of the US Navy were the first to arrive. The discussion that took place between General Hoar of MacDill AFB and Adm. Doug Katz (COMUSNAVCENT) didn't sound good at all. Hoar was cussing out Katz because he did NOT want US Navy to be the first visible landing force. He wanted the Marines, and the Pentagon wanted to fulfill that "...From the sea" crap PC ideology, depicting Marines landing on the beach.
That was a prime example of what I'm talking about - you're right, we're a far cry from the days of WWII and how the military on-scene commanders fought against the enemy without having to constantly check in with US shoreside battle commanders who aren't even on-scene to see what is going on.
Yes, in Vietnam, our men had to ask permission to fire when being fired upon.
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