“You would never hear a great General like Patton making an inane statement such as this…” sorry, BigOil but I don’t think its inane at all. Let’s give General McChrystal a chance. He can’t do much worse than we’ve been doing up to now. This isn’t World War II (I wish it was. We’d have won by now). In counter insurgency warfare, the people are the prize. In Iraq, it tooks us years and cost us a fortune in precious lives to re-learn this lesson. If we can’t adapt our tactics to this new reality and learn how to fight the war we’ve got, not the one we wish we had, then we will lose.

GUTLESS POLITICIANS and LAWYER TYPES!!!
No Balls ……. No Grapefruit

Afghan insurgents show signs of foreign influence
By Sean D. Naylor
“FORWARD OPERATING BASE LAGMAN, QALAT, Afghanistan — U.S. troops reported a fierce firefight in late May against Farsi-speaking insurgents who wore body armor and “Kevlar hel­mets” and used smoke grenades. The U.S. soldiers killed an esti­mated 35 insurgents and suffered no casualties but say the battle demonstrated the increasing so­phistication of some guerrilla groups here….
But as the level of violence has risen, so have reports of insur­gents displaying unusually good marksmanship and other tacti­cal skills. “They’ve got marks­manship training somewhere that is making it much more ac­curate than normal,” Cannata said.
The increased skill level points to the presence of foreign fighters either as combatants themselves or as trainers of Afghan insur­gents, U.S. troops said.”

So, as the battle heats up in Afghanistan, President Obama apparently just sent 7,000 additional Marines over there on a big babysitting job. Isn’t that why Gen Conway wanted them out of Iraq? Enough occupational stuff, get back into the fight, etc.?
As pdsand pointed out, official US policy is now “run first – only shoot if you can’t get away.”
This is shameful and dangerous.
I knew Obama would compromise the safety and well-being of our troops. I just didn’t think it would happen so soon. It’s amazing to watch how he deviously keeps his hands clean in all of it. He puts a new guy in charge and then saddles him with announcing this horrific policy, so when things go south this summer, he has someone to blame – and fire. He can act like he’s concerned about troops dying later, for now he needs to appease his base and run a war where no one is allowed to act like it’s a war, other than when they die.

La, la, la, la, la….she said as she skips down the lane….

What in the H*** is the matter with this idiot who calls him self our president!!!!!!
This makes me sick! He won’t speak out against what is happening in Iran and now this!

This character hates our soldiers so much he will have them killed…so he will be….Liked?…He makes me so ashamed of this stance. He is an embarrassment to every freedom loving American

War is nasty…it’s horrible…but sometimes it must be waged. Today…it’s the local Afghans and Iranians…tomorrow it’s us.

But then what does he care…so long as they “like” HIM…piece of feces!!!

Those are going to the COI for shaking down executives reforming corrupt businesses.

Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who took command of international forces in Afghanistan this month, has said his measure of effectiveness will be the “number of Afghans shielded from violence,” and not the number of militants killed.

You would never hear a great General like Patton making an inane statement such as this.

If we plan to transform the military into a police force – police chief Obama needs to issue billy clubs and badges.

Guess we know where the bad guys will be hiding out with the stockpiles of stuff they can get their hands on. Guess we know where most of the assaults will be coming from.

Hey! Itsa party! Have the neighborhood over and have a one way battle.

Tell me they’re kidding. If not, bring our guys home!!! What b.s.!!!

Letting the Democrats run a war is like letting an atheist give a sermon.

Running a war from your plush leather chair in your air-conditioned office. Doncha just love it?

Or worse yet, Pelosi or Reid could find out about it.