Because the Medevacs wear red crosses and, therefore, under Army policy cannot carry defensive guns. So the medical birds have to wait for gunships to escort them and, sometimes, the gunships are busy.

Would seem simple enough. Remove the red crosses, which only aggravate the Muslim enemy (not to mention the Muslim allies), and mount defensive guns and gunners.

Too hard for the modern Army to grasp, apparently. (Similar to their refusal to stop driving Humvees on mined roads in Iraq.) Even though, as war correspondent Michael Yon notes, our medics are not adorned with red crosses (as they were in World War II) and they do carry rifles.

Obozo, of course, could have already solved the Medevac problem with a phone call. But it seems he’s too busy playing golf, or else following Mooch and the children around for ice cream and so forth on their latest taxpayer-paid vacation. What a commander-in-chief, right? Yeah.

“Specialist Chazray Clark was dying due to politics, and the Army and Air Force pilots are very angry about this.  Chazray’s is not the only such case…It is important to be absolutely clear–this is not about the Dustoff pilots and crews, who are incredibly courageous.

“They have earned enormous respect.  They’ll fly into hell to get one of our wounded troopers.  This is about politics getting in the way of saving lives…The General in charge of this fiasco needs to be fired.”

More from embedded correspondent Michael Yon.

Obamalot could remedy this with a phone call, and damn well better.

Delayed, that is, because they have to wait for Apache gunship escorts. Not because the landing zones are especially hot but because the Medevacs wear Red Crosses and the Geneva Convention doesn’t allow them to carry defensive guns.

Jeeze, Louise. All our Medevacs in I Corps in Viet Nam in 1969 wore Red Crosses and always carried door guns. The enemy there had no more respect for Red Crosses than the Taliban does now. So much for progress, eh? Visit Michael’s web site and consider helping defray his expenses so he can continue to tell these stories that are NOT being told elsewhere. I do and have for years now.

Well, nothing on the Islamic war against the West. It continues. Our all-volunteer military, while benefiting from a new generation of volunteers, remains stressed with two major campaigns and a host of smaller ones. For the first time, the National Guard and Reserves have become continuously- active parts of the active-duty force.

But the war is not (officially) called the War on Terror anymore (which, though clumsy and avoiding the main [Muslim] issue, was, at least, descriptive)—thanks to the Dumbocrats and their academic, Hollywood and media surrogates, who’ve impeded it every step of the way.

They’ve always been more concerned with nomenclature than reality. Green energy, anyone?

The war itself is still pretty much of a loser. Caroline Glick says it’s because Bush Jr.’s toughest words never got translated into action, the USA still refuses to admit it’s fighting radical Islam, and appeasement of Muslim countries in the Middle East remains the order of the day. Sigh.

Airline travel has become (if possible) even more onerous. We take off our shoes now, in order to get aboard, in honor of would-be terrorist Richard Reid (serving a life sentence in Britain, which means he’ll probably be out soon). Also no bottles of liquid allowed unless they’re purchased within the gate area, in honor of someone I forget, there have been so many of them.

For a long time afterward most previously-open military installations were closed to the public. Austin’s Camp Mabry recently reopened, making its good military history museum accessible once more. Fort Hood, after enduring its own terrorist shoot-em-up by a Muslim major, still is closed—probably for good.

One thing that hasn’t changed: Israel’s perpetual 9/11, a suicide bomber here, a suicide bomber there, and, as always, few media elsewhere pay any attention—except to write pitying profile stories about the Muslim bombers, only rarely about their Jewish victims.

UPDATE:  The Third Jihad, a film still worth watching, for a reminder of the war that likely will still be with our children’s children.

Now Obamalot won’t release the pictures. Too gory. Spiking the ball, etc. Could it be the commandos messed up the dead guy’s face to the extent that the pictures prove nothing? Seems so. Mighty dumb of them to be so careless.

We’ve already heard that the DNA “match” is familial, rather than a true “match.” OBL had only a half-sister, whose DNA the government has, and apparently none from him or his parents. So all the feds can say with certainty is that the dead guy was a member of OBL’s extended family. Hardly definitive.

None of which is getting much ink, of course. The Democrat media is more than happy to take the word of the government, and ridicule those who won’t. Against all past experience, starting with Watergate. Ah, but that was a Republican, see. We can trust Democrats. Well, not all of us do.

UPDATE:  This will certainly be enough for some. I’d still like to see our proof.

So the Democrats and the Hildabeast can look decisive, tough, etc.? She/they simply look like stupid warmongers. Backing the Iranian freedom fighters would have been worth something to our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. So, naturally, we didn’t do that.

“The whole of Libya is not worth the bones of a single American pilot.”

I know, I know. It’s all about the damned oil and our (now, thanks to the Democrats) shaky economy. Always the oil. Can’t drill at home, tho. Oh, no.

Obama says motive mystifying.

(Hint: 80 percent of Kosovo is Muslim.)

UPDATE:  Mystery solved. Big surprise, right?

We can only hope the Pentagon finally learns something (you’d think the Fort Hood massacre might have given them a clue) and starts providing some meaningful security for the troops.

Army Pvt. Devon J. Harris

Died November 27, 2010 serving during Operation Enduring Freedom

Age 24, of Mesquite, Tex.; assigned to Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 10th Mountain Division, at Ft. Polk, La.; died Nov. 27 in Wardak province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit with a rocket-propelled grenade.

Read it all.

When W was president, the legacy media was clamoring to photograph the latest dead hero’s arrival home. Now that a Democrat is, there’s a blackout on that aspect of the war. Strange how that works, eh?

“U.S. servicemen and -women are being dispatched to combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan where they are fighting Iranian soldiers and assets in a regional war with the Islamic Republic that our officials dare not discuss, lest they have to do something about it.”

An analysis of the dump that’s worth a look.