Maybe if we pulled out of this "war" then no one would be endangered.
You mean pull out of your Lord and Master's "war?" - Lord Zero's war?
You do realize you libs own that war now? It isn't Bush's war, it's yours. Zero made all sorts of grandiose promises to end this and end that, but he decided to hang onto this particular war. Care to speculate why that is? Carefully think about your response before you do.
Regarding this comment from the article here:
In the directive, Gen. Petraeus underlined the importance of coordinating the operations with the Afghans, making it harder for Mr. Karzai and others to argue they weren't involved in the decision-making, officials said.
A senior Obama administration official said the changes made by Gen. Petraeus were "a way of responding to Karzai's concerns" about the raids without giving into his demands to end the operations outright, but said the issue was likely to remain a sore point in relations.
First of all, I have sincere doubts that the directive was entirely Gen. Petraeus's. There is no doubt in my mind that the armchair warriors in the Oval Orifice had their hand in it too. Oh, Petraeus surely came up with a draft, but then the hacks in Washington got their shithooks in it.
When you implement directives that require your people to "coordinate", you hamper them from doing their jobs. Pure and simple. Petraeus knows that.
When are the ROE going to change to also reflect this new "directive?"
I've got a bad feeling about this.
