Pises jak nesrozumitelne. Od kdy se pocita “od doby Obamy”? Jesti od
2016, tak to mohl Dear Leader pro tebe zmenit. Jestli od 2009 tak podle toho co
je napsane v nasledujicim odstavci … KECAS (a nebo mi dej dukaz, ze to co pisi
neni Pravda
)
But the Pentagon carved out numerous exceptions that, in practice, made the
distinctions almost meaningless. In the skies, U.S. fighters, bombers,
helicopters and drones continued to fly air combat missions against
Taliban forces. In 2015 and 2016, [nebylo to
nahodou za doby kdo byl president the U.S. military launched missiles and bombs
on 2,284 occasions, a decline from previous years but still an average of more
than three times a day.
On the ground, the Pentagon created another combat exception for troops
carrying out “counterterrorism operations,” or raids on specific targets.
Those rules of engagement permitted Special Operations forces to capture or kill
members of al-Qaeda and “associated forces,” a vague term that could also
apply to the Taliban or other insurgents.