a nonstate actor nested in civilian populations who uses rockets launched from rooftops, school backyards and living rooms, and the only way to win those wars, to win those time-outs was to, unfortunately, tragically, kill civilians. and the israelis chose to do that. so they bought this time-out with running the risk of being accused of war crimes. and that s why you have this oddity of israel on the one hand more illegitimate than ever being accused of basically war crimes. prime minister netanyahu has got to get off the dime here and understand the danger and opportunity of an israel that has to buy its time-outs with this currency. and this is the moment. and unfortunately, netanyahu is doing what he did the first time around. i call it dog paddling in the rubicon. he never quite crosses the rubicon.
a nonstate actor nested in civilian populations who uses rockets launched from rooftops, school backyards and living rooms, and the only way to win those wars, to win those time-outs was to, unfortunately, tragically, kill civilians. and the israelis chose to do that. so they bought this time-out with running the risk of being accused of war crimes. and that s why you have this oddity of israel on the one hand more illegitimate than ever being accused of basically war crimes. prime minister netanyahu has got to get off the dime here and understand the danger and opportunity of an israel that has to buy its time-outs with this currency. and this is the moment. and unfortunately, netanyahu is doing what he did the first time around. i call it dog paddling in the rubicon. he never quite crosses the rubicon. he dog paddles in the middle. he s caught. he s in this paralysis.
women. august 2012, taliban killers behead 17 people, including two women for attending a mixed gender party. i could go on and on. the atrocities never end not nor legitimate army. the terrorists, they torture and skill civilians. are we all getting this? you don t free five war criminals even if the life of the american soldier is on the line. talking points understands honest people disagree with thatvme( statement. if you want to win the war on terror, you simply can cannot appear weak. and interesting aside, the daily beast web site reporting that hillary clinton did not want to release the five taliban killers in past negotiations. gee, i wonder who leaked that today? and many democratic politicians are running now, running away from the obama
engagement. what are they now, and how might they change under general petraeus? reporter: to put it simply, rules of engagement are how u.s. military personnel when on patrol can engage the ebme when fired upon and because there was such a high priority placed by former general stanley mcchrystal on avoiding afghan civilian casualties for all sorts of understandable necessary reasons because when u.s. forces harm or kill civilians in afghanistan that creates a secondary problem of morale and buy-in from the afghans to avoid the civilian casualties. it s very restrictive for u.s. forces. they can t necessarily call in air power, they can t fire on taliban attackers, even when they re being ambushed or being sniped at, unless they know for sure there are no civilians there. i talked to joe lieber many own fox news sunday because he was in kabul and met with general petraeus and he said are the rules of engagement going to be looked at and he said they were and added this: general pe