{"id":1204,"date":"2009-09-24T06:25:34","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T06:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2009-09-24T06:25:34","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T06:25:34","slug":"the_need_to_change_the_rules_i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1204","title":{"rendered":"The Need To Change The Rules In Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/opinion\/opedcolumnists\/the_rules_murdering_our_troops_u935ECKNWXpLK8C5D96pdN\">New York Post<\/a>&nbsp;has an opinion piece about the changes in the rules of engagement&nbsp; that have occurred since President Obama took office.&nbsp; Two of these rules are very troubling:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Unless our troops in combat are absolutely certain that no civilians are present, they&#8217;re denied artillery or air support. <\/li>\n<li>If <em>any<\/em> civilians appear where we meet the <a class=\"topiclink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/t\/Taliban\">Taliban<\/a>, our troops are to &#8220;break contact&#8221; &#8212; to retreat. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am not a military strategy expert, but this is dumb even to me.&nbsp; We are fighting an enemy that is very good a waging a public relations war as well as an insurgent war.&nbsp; It is a good idea to avoid civilian casualties if possible, but not in a way that gives our enemies a way to avoid being attacked.&nbsp; I am sure that the Taliban figured out very quickly that all they have to do is have civilians with them at all times and they will not be attacked.&nbsp; In an organization where suicide bombers are routinely trained, I am sure it is not difficult to find a few civilians to go into the battlefield with you.<\/p>\n<p>I support the war in Afghanistan.&nbsp; I believe it is a proxy war with Iran and that it is a necessary part of fighting terrorism.&nbsp; However, if our soldiers are not being allowed to fight the war with everything they have, bring them home.&nbsp; To do otherwise is the put them in jeopardy for no reason.&nbsp; If you choose to tie&nbsp;our soldiers&#8217;&nbsp;hands as they fight this war, remember that the price of Afghanistan falling back into chaos is that terrorists have a safe haven to plan their attacks on the rest of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s New York Post&nbsp;has an opinion piece about the changes in the rules of engagement&nbsp; that have occurred since President Obama took office.&nbsp; Two of these rules are very troubling: Unless our troops in combat are absolutely certain that no &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1204\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}