Quote Originally Posted by marct View Post
It's interesting how we read things....
Pesky humans...

I'll juggle your comment a bit:
And, while I wholeheartedly agree that this is not a political board, in the sense of punditry etc., I think that a certain amount of politics and political discussion is inevitable. After all, we certainly discuss politics in Iraq, Afghanistan and Turkey! Personally, I think that discussing politics as it relates to both small wars and the Long War in the US is quite valid.
Totally true -- the trick is to avoid introducing partisan or ideological bias that will lead to a thread or sub thread that is purely political and has no military or warfare connection. Mostly because the serving folks cannot comment on it...

As for this:
...I suspect that many of us outside of the US perceive that tactics like hat are the normal ROE for US politicians <shrug>.
Here you go, reminder of a well known fact; LINK.