Path to 9-11 (2008 version) or Tora Bora Redux
(NYPost so probably a little over the top.)
I do understand that cultural sensitivities are the reason for the limitations, but still, you'd think somebody'd make that call.
Taliban terror leaders who had gathered for a funeral - and were secretly being watched by an eye-in-the-sky American drone - dodged assassination because U.S. rules of engagement bar attacks in cemeteries, according to a shocking report
U.S. intelligence officers in Afghanistan are still fuming about the recent lost opportunity for an easy kill of Taliban honchos packed in tight formation for the burial, NBC News reported......
Pentagon officials declined comment and referred The Post to Central Command officers in Afghanistan, who did not respond to a request for comment or explanation.
I do understand that cultural sensitivities are the reason for the limitations, but still, you'd think somebody'd make that call.
posted by mikevotes at
2:10 PM
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Yeah... so hitting 'collateral' residential housing is o.k., (not to mention water boarding and ignoring the Geneva Convention and the Constitution), but hitting defined bad guys gathered around someone who is already dead is not. Who just said we are "at war," after all?
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Anonymous, at 6:42 PM
Again, I understand the original reason that this was in the rules of engagement, trying to avoid broadening the hatred, but I do agree.
That was a time to stretch the rules.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 8:56 PM
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