Opteron
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The ROE are entirely McChrystal's, this is his plan. Obama just appointed him, he doesn't get involved with ROE's or day-to-day operations of the military. This is McChrystal's "win hearts and minds" campaign, which I think is wrong. Petraeus' counterinsurgency plan mainly was to get in the "suicide belts" with regional outposts and payoff the Sunnis. McChrystal even tries to sell the ROE's to privates and convince them of his "win hearts and minds" strategy when he visits the troops, as it said in the Rolling Stone article. The ROE's and the plan are entirely McChrystal's, don't try to blame Obama on this one. The change in ROEs are probably because Petraeus is a more competent commander than McChrystal, and with his juvenile comments I'm not surprised why McChrystal's credibility and competence might be questioned.I find it very interesting that all of a sudden the rules of engagement are under review just after McChrystal resigns. The fact is it was Petraus who was McCrystals boss & who originally designed the counterinsurgency strategy that McChrystal was employing with much the same ROE. My theory is that McChyrstal never decided on the "rules of engagement" and that this was pushed on him by the Obama administration probably with pressure from the commie lawyers over at the ACLU, one of Obamas constituencies. McChystal over time probably saw that there was no way his plan would work with these kind of rules. His pleas to the president & his minions probably fell on deaf ears so he decided to change paths not wanting to preside over a lost war and in the process bring attention to the problem. Falling over the sword for the good of the country so to speak. How else do you explain the timing of the changes in ROE ?
I doubt whether any serious military man (McChrystal or Petraus) would impose rules that would result in more of there own soldiers being killed (especially a special forces guru like McChrystal) so these incredibly restrictive rules must have come from the the civilian leadership & was imposed on the military by someone who knows very little about how to win a war. Have any guess's? Could it possibly be the same guy who wants to impose his will over the banking indusrty, the car companies, the energy sector, ect. ect. ect .
The stench of Obama & the left are all over this one, they griped & griped & griped until they twisted Gates arm enough to impose them, then when they found the results to be not very good for them politically (losing a war) they did a 180. How Ironic how they scorned Petraus when he "Bushes" man but when Obama apponted his own guy and he supposedly failed now we have Bushes man (whom they hated before) replacing him. Anyone see the Irony in this?