[b]http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100121/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan[/b]
Basically it says that we’ll stop raiding terrorists at night because people don’t like it.
WTF? The argument is that it’s “socially irritating” to enter somebody’s house at night, so it’s ok to do it during the day?
And another thing : ““We’re not going to be in a position to stop all that activity,” he said but suggested more operations could be carried out during the day in less dangerous areas.”
Granted there are areas with a lesser Taliban presence, but hitting a house during the day and getting shot by homeboy and his AK will suck just as bad in a “less dangerous area” as it would hitting them at night. This doesn’t even account for the tactical advantage we lose by hitting them during the day.
And as for the kid that grabbed a soldiers weapon and was killed, well what do you expect dumbass? If you go grab a cops gun during a raid you better believe you’ll get shot, or at least beat down. 15 years old makes you a military age male in our book, and if a military age male, hell anybody grabs your weapon it is well within the ROE’s to kill his ass dead.
There are other ways to create better relations with the locals that don’t put our boys at risk. This is just a lazy attempt at appeasment instead of taking a step back and looking at the bigger issue and taking steps to solve the underlying problems.