Thanks. I gave a link of this letter in my blog….

Who wrote this “rules of engagement”? Jamie “The Wall” Gorelick?

In addition, call me ‘crazy’ but this just doesn’t look like a Muslim funeral. It looks more like a ‘strategic’ meeting in a cemetary.

The reference to the picture on the front page is that are few professions which garner the intense media attention like the armed forces during the time of most stress, i.e., the middle of a war. Sure highly paid athletes and entertainers make the cover but you don’t see a whole lot CPA’s or bank tellers on the cover and there isn’t somebody lurking over their shoulder to question their every move.
LakeRuins comes from a nickname I have for the ‘ol homestead, and if you ever saw my Honey Do list you would understand.

LakeRuins on September 14, 2006 at 11:54 AM

You make a good point. I don’t know the answer though. Good luck with your chores!!!!

I am not sure I get your point re the photo bit–you’re saying that when soldiers do this sort of thing they are publicized disproportionately? Front page photo for writing a bad check?? I was not aware of that, if that is the case, that’s the worst sort of yellow journalism.

When did liberals take over the military? Your assertions above all would require action by the military re the troops in question. Or are you suggesting the military is so fearful of liberals–the out of power party–that they are acting against their own principles?

honora on September 14, 2006 at 10:06 AM

It isn’t that liberals have taken over the military, but rather the military is goverened and must adhere to the same laws and rules as anybody else. Wearing the uniform of your country does not afford you any exemptions or a “Get out of Jail” free card, but rather the opposite. I recall in the 90′s when we had soldiers who had their careers ruined for writing bad checks, or receiving a DUI.
The other point is when was the last time somebody came to your workplace took a picture and put it on the front page of a newspaper or magazine?

For Jailbones and JohnnyU you need to tell those sentiments to service members currently on trial, some facing the death penalty, for doing exactly what you suggest. In matters of warfare if a soldier is found guilty of violating the rules and laws or warfare the penalty is more often then not more then a $50 fine. It is the termination of a career, ruin of his family, and the loss of any chance at succeding out in the civillian world.Do you remember the friendly fire incident where the Canadiens were killed? Does anybody here know what happened to the soldiers accused of desecrating the Koran at Gitmo? Nobody followed up to see what happened to those soldiers as a result of that false story but they are no longer in the service of the country and I believe at least one of them was demoted and discharged on a General Discharge rather then a Honorable.So while it is easy for folks in armchairs to get their panties in wad the truth is the guy on the ground does not have that luxury. There is just as much chance he will end up on trial as it is he be hailed as a hero.Liberals believe this is a legal issue and have shaped public opinion into that mode. Just look at the debate on this thread whether they could or couldn’t engage this target. The guy on the ground does not the luxury of debate, he must either act or face serious consequences which on one hand could mean being wounded or killed or the same happening to the soldiers under his command or facing charges on war crimes.
Sometimes the only rule that applies is “Better to be judged by 12 then carried by 6″.

LakeRuins on September 14, 2006 at 9:58 AM

When did liberals take over the military? Your assertions above all would require action by the military re the troops in question. Or are you suggesting the military is so fearful of liberals–the out of power party–that they are acting against their own principles?

Cemetaries are covered under this portion. If the Taliban had fired at the drone hey it would be fair game, otherwise it is just a massacre at a funeral like all of those wedding parties we hear about all of the time. You know innocent civillians.

LakeRuins on September 13, 2006 at 4:11 PM
This just goes to show that liberalism has corrupted and poisoned everything it touches. By enacting these “gay assed” rules of engagement we have effectively cut our own balls off. It’s time to “man up ” and “grow a pair”, folks. We have to put these liberals in the trunk and close the lid. Liberals would get us all killed in their vain search for “utopia”.

IN THE CHEST OF A LIBERAL, BEATS THE HEART OF A COWARD-Soothsayer

Soothsayer on September 13, 2006 at 4:18 PM

FYI, the Geneva Convention was passionately promoted by one Dwight D Eisenhower to the US. Someone who might have a little bit of an idea of the hazards of war. Oh and not a liberal.

Second: put liberals in a trunk and close the lid. Gee, what would the cowardly thing to do be?

LOL

This is infuriating. HotAir, Michelle Malkin, and others have covered this and there’s not much to add because I think we’re all equally outraged at the “rules of engagement” that led to this Clinton style bungle. Kerry Sanders originally……

since when do Taliban terrorists hiding in the mountains qualify for protection under the Geneva Convention? Am I missing something here?

Jaibones on September 13, 2006 at 11:51 PM

You’re missing so much, apparently, that it is futile to explain. In brief, the Geneva Convention was not set up for non-uniformed ragmuffins, nor for gangsters.

NPP, I agree with you on Afghanistan. NATO needs to get more troops in and stay focused. It’s hard to contain threatened and wounded snakes, in that territory.

The simple truth is we don’t know if this story is true. We have one leaked still image from a pred video (at least the leaker had the good sense to cut off the flight data). We have one leaker’s story. We don’t know who those people are and what the circumstances are, yet everyone here believes it as if it were the word of God. AP is the only one that understands – he put the proper caveats in his post.

Finally, although I have great respect for Michael Yon, I am not nearly as pessimistic as he is. This is certainly a more violent year in Afghanistan but I don’t think this represents a sea-change.

UPDATED:Below from early this a.m. – Our soldiers should have been able to blast the hell out of the Taliban gathered at a funeral in Afghanistan. This is outragous!! The NY Post is reporting this story today….

The military had 190 Taliban leaders in it’s crosshairs today, but didn’t take them out. Why? It was NOT because of their ‘rules of engagement’ as initially reported. The true reason is because a high-ranking government official in Washington made…

Now make that 2 men’s a 1 woman’s opinion.

Witness the movie, “Path To 9/11″ as to why we didn’t get the bad guys before they got us.

Let’s just hope this picture scares them back into their damn caves. Now, if you’ll excuse me I gotta go take a mohamed. Damn, I’m outta toilet paper, anybody have a koran?

I say screw the Geneva convention and put away the rules of engagement.Those were rules for more honored times,gentelmen’s wars if you will. The enemy we now face will follw no rules at all and kill every last one of us and our children in the quest for their Caliphate.We truly need to man up and quit playing by the Nancy Boy’s rules.The future of Western Civilization depends upon it,
This is my opinion and should in no way be considered an opinion of anything HotAir or PJM, just one man’s opinion.

Let’s make that two men’s opinions ;)