Comments on: Disaster?

By: Anon

Anon — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:13:09 +0000

Real nice. All they need is one guy with an SVD or even an old Lee Enfield, to start taking pot shots at our guys. We can’t blow ‘em up, and the mud brick walls are too tough for 5.56 and potentially larger small arms fire… so what do we do? One of two things: retreat, or…

Send in a squad to clear the building, who are then promptly turned to red mist when the sniper activates his suicide vest.

Being a terrorist has got to be one of the easiest jobs in the world (aside from the death part).

By: jimb

jimb — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:11:21 +0000

My contact in the ‘stan is truely disconcerted with this one. I thought the new guy would have a brain.

Wrong.

By: Bram

Bram — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:07:11 +0000

The shocking thing is that nobody has shot or fragged a JAG yet.

By: GeekLethal

GeekLethal — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:37:24 +0000

Bram,
JAG lawyers were on the ground early on; absolutely NLT than the arrival of initial elements of 101st. Lawyers have been blessing fire missions and air strikes since the bottom of ’01 or the top of ’02.

SF soldiers I spoke to felt, maybe more than half-joking, that the war was over as soon as the Big Army showed up.

By: Bram

Bram — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:24:56 +0000

I agree with all. Time to go home.

The lawyers and political assholes (redundant) have taken command. Unfortunately they only lead from the rear so they won’t be the ones killed by their stupidity.

By: Nadnerbus

Nadnerbus — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:55:18 +0000

ChasR nailed it. Even one rule like this just advertises that we won’t do what it takes to win. It was rules like this that hamstrung us in Vietnam and allowed the enemy safe haven in Cambodia and Laos. The intent is probably genuine and well intentioned, but its a losing idea. If you can’t trust your grunts and commanders to make the right call on the ground, then don’t send them in.

If we don’t have the commitment to do it right at the present, then let’s not wait for god-knows how many more years and how many more casualties on both sides to admit we didn’t get, and couldn’t get it done.

By: James R. Rummel

James R. Rummel — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:36:58 +0000

Good post.

James

By: Kristopher

Kristopher — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:33:33 +0000

This is how NuLabor got the British Army out of Iraq … by loading on rules of engagement restrictions until the troops were helpless.

This will end poorly … Obama wants the US to fail.

By: Phelps

Phelps — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:31:59 +0000

But not allowing I mean.

By: Phelps

Phelps — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:31:01 +0000

I was thinking that a better analogy was, “this is like fighting a war in Vietnam but allowing bombing in the north.”