Sources involved in the air war against ISIS said that,
“Strike missions take on average just under an hour from a pilot
requesting permission to strike an ISIS target, to a weapon leaving the wing,
so by that time, the insurgents have either vanished or we are out of fuel”.
After Obama had changed the rules of engagement (ROE) in
Afghanistan in 2011, immediately US combat troop deaths tripled. Marines
complained that they needed to watch through their night-vision goggles as
shadowy green figures dug holes in the roadway. “On several occasions we opened
fire but at some point, the order came down to ‘Stop shooting at night unless you
can positively identify an insurgent’. We knew what they were doing ... burying
IEDs for sure, but command instructed us that, ‘You can't be positive. They might be farmers. ' It’s ridiculous”, they
said.
Also under orders from the Obama Administration, a new
military handbook was published for all U.S. troops deployed to the Middle
East, which contained a list of “taboo conversation topics”. It included:
• “Making derogatory comments about the Taliban.”
• “Advocating women’s rights.”
• “Any criticism of pedophilia.”
• “Mentioning homosexuality and homosexual conduct,” or
• “Anything related to Islam itself.”
Furthermore, Obama had noted in his handbook that, “The
tripling in deadly attacks by Afghan soldiers against US forces was due to
Western ignorance of Afghan culture”. Hmmm.
Obama’s revised ROE in Iraq has meant airstrike missions
have dropped from a planned 800 per day to 14, through pilots’ inability to
engage targets. The pilot must first determine that no more than 10 per cent of
any target would involve civilians and in no case no more than 30 civilians must be at risk at any time. If in any doubt,
permission must be sought from higher up the line of command.
Combat troops must be accompanied by Iraqi soldiers and must
not enter mosques at any time nor should they enter homes unless fired upon
first. Only women can search women, even when a male is suspected of wearing a
burkah. No night or surprise searches are allowed.
Households have to be warned prior to searches. U.S.
soldiers may not fire at the enemy, unless the enemy is preparing to fire
first. U.S. forces cannot engage the enemy if civilians are present. If Iraqi
soldiers are present, US troops can fire at an insurgent if they see him
planting an IED during the day, but not at night and not if insurgents are
merely “walking away from the area where the explosives have been laid”.
The recent fall of Ramadi was anticipated 12 months ago when
US intelligence first detected a slow build-up of ISIS forces on the western perimeter,
yet targeting of those forces using air strikes was not given clearance by US
command.
The ISIS can peruse the revised Obama ROEs on the internet
at any time, courtesy of Wikileaks, yet no changes appear to have been made to
the rules. SO .... mosques have become weapons caches, where male suicide
bombers dress in burkahs, ISIS militia will not open fire on US troops unless surrounded by civilians and, as long as
they are not shooting at things, convoys of ISIS artillery can move freely on open
roadways without fear of being shot at.
Fair dinkum question. Can America sustain 18 more months of
the Obama/Kerry twins, with the corrupt Clintons in the wings? And more
importantly, WTF are we doing there, under these kinds of rules of engagement?
http://pickeringpost.com/story/rules-of-engagement-obama-style/4967
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