There is no area of foreign policy that is better now than when Barack took office! ...Period!
Welcome to our World Mr. Karzai!
The Taliban don’t want peace. They want us gone so they can take the country back over and commence throwing acid on schoolgirls.
So he blindsides the Afghan President in the process in addition to Congress —
Wow
Hey, it was made BEHIND OUR BACKS TOO, but nobody cares if I’m upset!
Join the club, we've got jackets.
It’s OK since the war in Afghanistan is over and we’ll only leave 10,000 troops there for a few more years along with a bazillion armed contractors.
Did Karzai think he was dealing with an Amercan president?
The Kenyan/Indonesian who occupies the White Hut is the political ally of the Castros, Chavezs and Ayatollas of the world.
If I were in the military at this point in time, I would walk....No RUN... to the nearest exit.
Another translation that would be just as accurate...
"We're friggin' terrorists. What kind of moron would think we want peace?" Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said
There is more:
Ledeen reports major Haqqani connections as they were Bergdahl’s captors...
http://pjmedia.com/michaelledeen/2014/06/01/mirrors-and-veils-the-bergdahl-perplex/?singlepage=true
Also, Huffington Post has a lot on the Haqqani network:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/07/haqqani-network-afghanistan_n_987762.html
So, The Afgan leader was left out of the final loop. An American Islamo-philic deserter is traded for 5 major Taliban leaders for what treasure at the expense of the US taxpapayer is unknown. Why pay to exchange our Jihadist for their five Jihadists of higher value?
Only Ledeen has posted further investigation leading to his realistic speculations regarding the Haqqani Networks’ centrality in the exchange working with QATAR.
Aside from military lives being expended in the search for Bergdahl, what has the US paid to get him back? What will it pay in the future?
Not just Karzai is being left out of the loop.
As far as I can tell one can’t usually believe the things that Karzai says. Plus he has to adopt an anti-American attitude for domestic consumption purposes. Plus he’s massively corrupt and untrustworthy so why would the US want to fully clue him in on negotiations. The combination of these factors make it impossible to tell what actually happened based on what he says in public.
This guy is the biggest goofup I have ever seen. I don’t know who voted for him, but anybody who did shouldn’t be voting. They have no idea what is going on.
A man who would make a monumental deal in another country without informing the president of that country is a clown.
No cut for Korzis i s a good way to work, in general.
Why do I have this strange feeling that by mid-November, 2016, the Taliban will once again be running Afghanistan with the not so secret support of Obama.
Of course he is worried… some of those guys who are (or could be) released run the gamut from dangerous to outright killers who would take down Karzai himself.
Karzai doesn’t need to be too upset. He kept congress in the dark, too.
Don’t fret Hamid, you in the same boat with the highest ranking Congressional Republicans and the great unwashed American people. Go put some more cash in your Swiss Bank accounts and confirm your one way tickets out.
I wonder if leaking the CIA station chief’s ID was part of the deal with the Haqqanis
