Sunday, September 13, 2009

Comment on Mainlining Bill Roggio


In war civilian casualties should be expected when the civilians willingly support the combatants or the combatants hide among unwilling civilian human shields. An example of the flawed strategy to place civilian comfort above winning wars is the case when a group of Marines failed to receive air support for fear of hurting civilians. That became a disaster for the Marines.

Read this and more at The AfPak Reader.

JRH 9/13/09

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