Saturday, July 20, 2013
"Before Benghazi, There Was Extortion 17"
"Extortion 17" was the nickname of a helicopter transporting Navy Seals.
Our military has always had rules of engagement; however, they are now so restrictive that they make our military almost powerless to defend themselves...
Our military has always had rules of engagement; however, they are now so restrictive that they make our military almost powerless to defend themselves...
I found this in a posting by Pamela Geller at AmericanThinker.com:
"Our troops in Afghanistan are so restricted in ways that they're not even allowed to fire on the enemy without permission -- which means that the Taliban and al Qaeda can shoot at our soldiers at will and then disappear while our forces are trying to get permission to return fire. And that isn't even the worst of all. The COIN doctrine forbids us to try to vet Afghans who want to work with the military. The result has been massive infiltration and an ever-growing number of green-on-blue attacks by our supposed "allies" against the American troops who are risking their lives to train them. And the green-on-blue attacks are only one aspect of the infiltration. The Taliban always seem to know what operations our troops are going to undertake. Obama knows all this, and yet he lets it continue, day after day, week after week, month after month. Really, which side is he on?"
