With this blog-post, I start a dialog with Mitt Romney, who, as stated previously, I now support, with my blog AND my money. My support is unconditional, but that doesn't mean I won't have questions for Mitt Romney.
Here is my first question, and you should know why it's first:
Dear Mitt:
Next January, when you are inaugurated and assume the heavy mantle of Commander in Chief, will your policy of winning wars differ from Barack Obama's?
I write this because to me, a Veteran of a foreign war (Vietnam) and retired USAF officer, Obama's biggest failing to me is NOT his mis-handling of the economy, it's his mis-handling of the job of CIC.
When you are inaugurated, the war in Afghanistan will still be going on. Policies put in place by Barack Obama are causing our military position in that war to become hopeless. For example, Rules Of Engagement (ROE) prohibit our troops from shooting into dwellings from which they have been fired upon. This rule, while effective at protecting civilians who might or might not be in those Taliban-occupied dwellings of their own free will, also gives the Taliban perfect cover from which to attack our patrolling troops. Using the element of surprise, the Taliban can fire upon our forces, then duck out of sight in those houses/compounds, and we can't return effective fires to destroy them. It has been the policy in organized warfare up to now that any dwelling used as cover by any belligerent may be taken under any available fires without the consequence of turning the attacking party into war criminals if they kill or wound civilians in the dwelling. Barack Obama changed that, probably encouraged to do so by Hamid Karzai, the corrupt and turncoat chief-of-thugs in that nation. This one ROE insures the defeat of the USA in this war, and makes the thousands of lives given by our men and women in combat into a gigantic waste.
When inaugurated, will you immediately issue a list of the crippling ROEs that you are rescinding? Will this ROE be on that list? Will all ROEs which are proven to cost lives and military effectiveness be rescinded? Will you stop supporting the crooked turncoat Karzai?
All veterans want to know the answers to these questions, Mitt. The economy will be Job One, for sure, but your role as CIC will be "Responsibility One". Barack Obama, who stated forever (up until he was elected President) that he was anti-war, has continued to prove that anti-war credential, and the ROEs are the proof. Are YOU going to reverse this untimely course of events, Mitt Romney?
Yours Truly, in War or Peace,
George Schneider, Major, USAFR, Retired.
(Reversing a long-standing policy of this blog, I've signed this letter.)
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