How about this tactic for the Fedayeen?

[ssardon]

This group of Fedayeen seems to be a problem, much like the VC were back in Vietnam. Seems like a very ideal mission for one of our SOF units. Let them conduct operations in Basrah or Nasariah.

[FallenAngel]

....there's too many Fedayeen I think to combat by SOF, unless we use ALL of them, which I doubt we will.

[PSYWAR1-0]

I was having breakfast with Tommy Boy this morning and brought up how some guy on the internet thought it would be a good Idea. He shot milk thru his nose and shouted "Eureka, I had never thought of that" He should be getting in touch with you post hast to offer you the job as his Operations Chief. :lol:

[Smoothie104]

Funny how the Fedayeen are committing "war crimes" for wearing civilian clothes while fighting. Didn't our SF and CIA operatives do the same in Afghanistan?

P.S. This country of ours was won in partial, by guerilla tactics. We couldn't go Toe to Toe with the Redcoats in an open field, so I am surprised by the inkling that the Military didn't expect this.

The Iraqi's learned a lesson in '91. Don't sit around and get plinked at the shooting gallery.

Pray for our troops when the fighting moves to the city, you know its a mess. In Vietnam, I think we averaged one KIA for every fifteen troops.
(We had 47,000 hostile KIA)

[Bing]

Technically the conflict in Afghanistan wasn't an actual war...so therefore the Geneva convention doesn't apply...and besides, they weren't combat soldiers (CIA) as part of the army per say, they were working for the CIA which is technically non-military...the body guards for the Afghan President were sent as body guards, not as combat troops...

[SFontaine]

Yeah. If we had entire forces running through wearing turbans and such and pulling out pistols when the Taliban wasn't expecting THAT would be illegal.

[Smoothie104]

The point I was trying to make was that the media/military administration act like its the most horrific thing imaginable, but every one of us would not hestitate to do the same thing if someone was invading our homeland.

If the enemy comes rolling down my street, I make a stand, regardless of any "laws" or "conventions" I would like to think that I am not alone in this line of thinking.

[Trigger]

but every one of us would not hestitate to do the same thing
There's a difference between playing possum to ambush enemy combatants and murdering your own people or unarmed POWs to retain power.
There are certain moral laws that don't need to be written down by man that apply to us all.