I think your getting my opinion about ROE wrong, Agamemnon. It's not that I want our troops to start breaking every rule in the book to win this war, I just think it's a bad situation when the enemy CAN, and not worry about the same things we would have to worry about. I suppose the same thing can be said for pretty much every major conflict, but this just seems to be a glaring example.
There was that picture a couple of days ago that showed hundreds of Taliban fighters at a funeral, nicely lined up in the sights of an unmaned drone over Afghanistan, but they couldn't shoot them because the Americans can't shoot at people in a funeral. But the Taliban can suicide bomb troops while they are handing out toys to children.
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