Reports indicate U.S. soldiers and British Royal Marines have been urged to show "courageous constraint" by not shooting Taliban members spotted planting IEDs.
The reason? Shooting them might disturb the locals.
:bash When the Rules of Engagement include directives not to engage the enemy during specific hours of the day because it "might disturb non-combatants" it's time to pack up and go home. What can possibly be expected of our troops under these conditions other than to surrender full control of Afghanistan to the Taliban from dusk to dawn?! OUTRAGEOUS!
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus