Ret. General: Obama’s Rules of Engagement Willing to Sacrifice American Lives to Keep From Insulting Islamists

Posted by: Steven Ahle Posted date: December 27, 2013 In: News



Obama must feel like he has an entire army of “expendables.“

One new rule which will almost certainly cost American lives is particular to Afghanistan, where our soldiers are gunned down by “friendly” Afghan troops. If an Afghan enters your area looks suspicious, you are not allowed to draw your gun, just in case.

You have to wait until he opens fire and by that time, you could be dead.

By Maj. Gen. Jerry R. Curry, US Army, Ret., describes it this way:
An Afghanistan soldier walks into an American headquarters. One of the American officers doesn’t like the Afghan’s looks and starts to draw his weapon. The senior American officer present says, “You know the new rules of engagement; put your gun away. We are to trust members of the Afghani military unless they draw a weapon or show other signs of overt hostility.” The American officer returns his weapon to its holster. The Afghani soldier smiles, draws his pistol and shoots both Americans dead.
Curry explains the evolution of the rules of combat. Starting with the French and Indian War, it was win the war at any cost. He goes on to state that the Viet Nam war was the era of the changing rules of engagement. We went from win at any cost to political correctness, to the point we are willing to sacrifice soldier’s blood. The bigger problem is our enemy is still operating under the win at any cost and have taken it well beyond anything Americans have ever done.

Curry relates an example of that when he was in Viet Nam:
The seeds of this over control of combat actions were planted many years before. I recall once when I was controlling an airstrike in Vietnam – my radio call sign was CatKiller Six — that I couldn’t get the fighter-bombers to attack the target I marked with my rockets no matter how hard I tried. Finally, in disgust, I called off the airstrike and told them to go home saying, “It shouldn’t be that hard to level a few mud huts in a village.”
“You want us to bomb the village,” the strike leader asked?

“Yes,” I said, “Since late last night all friendly civilians have been evacuated out of the village. Only Viet Cong enemy forces are left. Since you can’t hit the houses they are hiding it, the South Vietnamese will have to clear out the village by fighting house to house, and they will take a lot of casualties.”

“Village, CatKiller Six? Why didn’t you say so … Flight, this is flight leader … follow me. We’re going to attack the village.” Which is exactly what they proceeded to do, but only after insisting that I give my name, in the clear, as the person authorizing the strike.

Jerry Curry is a retired Army Major General, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Carter administration; Acting Press Secretary to the Secretary of Defense in the Reagan administration; and Administrator of the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration in the Bush Sr. administration.

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