I spent some time in their neighborhood. This was one of the "rules" we followed in the field, because this lesson was learned the hard way before my time.
It's kind of amazing to me that the people who actually have lived in these environments for their entire lives don't know better. They know this is how they fight; maybe they got used to fighting us?
I'll tell you this- if that was an American soldier looking down that scope at a pile of sleeping Taliban, he would probably not have been allowed to open fire because we let pussies in Washington decide how to fight a war against hardened guerillas halfway across the planet.
(post is archived)