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What Will Trump Administration Do If U.S. Catches ISIS Leader Baghdadi?
The Daily Beast ^ | March 11,2017 | John Batchelor

Posted on 03/13/2017 3:47:46 PM PDT by Hojczyk

Speaking recently with Deputy Assistant to the President Sebastian Gorka, I learned there is room to entertain the possibility that al-Badri, if located, may well fall into the hands of the US and its allies in the region, such as the Kurdish forces known as the YPG.

“Do we want al-Badri alive?” I asked.

“Unlike the Obama administration, we’re not going to second guess the theater commanders,” Gorka explained. “We’re not going to have the eight thousand mile screwdriver that literally was the last eight years. We will leave those decisions to how you effectively neutralize an HVT, a high value target, to the people who are there on the front line.”

Gorka then posited out loud about al-Badri in captivity, using the analogy of the nine-year pursuit and US-sanctioned killing of the surrounded Al Qaeda chieftain Osama Bin Laden in 2011.

“If I had my druthers, I’ve always said, in the last 16 years, it would have been superlative to have had Osama Bin Laden in an orange jumpsuit in the dock in a federal court. Not just from the treasure trove of intelligence that could have been gleaned from him from interrogations, but simply the psychological warfare aspect. The great leader of the global jihad is standing in a dock shackled to his waist by a chain. So that’s just my druthers.”

I agree with this measure and have corresponded with several of my colleagues, such as the Johns Hopkins historian Michael Vlahos, about the historical models for how an empire can manage a condemned outlaw and his followers.

The Spartacus rebellion in the Gladiator War was answered by Rome with the spectacular ruthlessness of crucifying six thousand of the defeated slave army long the Appian Way. Spartacus himself was never found.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: albadri; batchelor; gorka; isis
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To: Hojczyk

Run him as head of the DNC?


21 posted on 03/13/2017 4:14:56 PM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory.)
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To: jjotto
Mossad and most Israeli intelligence services are dominated by Leftist kooks.

Ah too bad. I heard they have some "interesting" interrogation techniques for terrorists.

22 posted on 03/13/2017 4:14:57 PM PDT by COBOL2Java ("Game over, man, game over!" (my advice to DemocRATs))
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To: Hojczyk

Vlad Tepes gave us the answer hundreds of years ago. A new forest should spring up in iraq, with al-bagdadi at its center.


23 posted on 03/13/2017 4:16:06 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: xzins
Run him as head of the DNC?

He'd certainly be a keynote speaker at the convention. Give him a copy of the Constitution as a prop!


24 posted on 03/13/2017 4:17:02 PM PDT by COBOL2Java ("Game over, man, game over!" (my advice to DemocRATs))
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To: BipolarBob
“What if we bag the Big Bad Baghdadi of Baghdad? Is that what I’m reading?”

Yeah, a typical RDDB reporter's response. Or perhaps a bunch of spineless Republicans. “Oh woe is me! You don't mean we might have to actually kill him do you?"

25 posted on 03/13/2017 4:17:13 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: Hojczyk
“If I had my druthers, I’ve always said, in the last 16 years, it would have been superlative to have had Osama Bin Laden in an orange jumpsuit in the dock in a federal court. Not just from the treasure trove of intelligence that could have been gleaned from him from interrogations, but simply the psychological warfare aspect. The great leader of the global jihad is standing in a dock shackled to his waist by a chain. So that’s just my druthers.”

Not a federal court. He would be lawyered up and you wouldn't get any information. Better a military tribunal at GITMO, and only after a very long interrogation at an undisclosed location in a friendly country where waterboarding would be a break from the real interrogation methods.

26 posted on 03/13/2017 4:26:03 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: Hojczyk

Call John McCain and ask him to come bail out his buddy?


27 posted on 03/13/2017 4:28:11 PM PDT by dforest
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To: COBOL2Java

He’s our Bag Daddy!

(She’s our bag lady...:?)


28 posted on 03/13/2017 4:36:22 PM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory.)
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To: Hojczyk
img src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TOTyNF8KUZM/V2SCSItpyCI/AAAAAAAAKY0/-deXpZZt__AjtgAtrz1dzeoVusDg1HOmwCLcB/s1600/Saigon%2Bexecution%2BMurder%2Bof%2Ba%2BVietcong%2Bby%2BSaigon%2BPolice%2BChief%252C%2B1968.jpg">
29 posted on 03/13/2017 4:38:02 PM PDT by 1FreeAmerican
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To: Mariner

ya had me till you shot him in the head..

someone else mentioned fire ants and honey.

.45 is to quick.


30 posted on 03/13/2017 4:38:53 PM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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To: 1FreeAmerican

Well that didn’t work!


31 posted on 03/13/2017 4:40:00 PM PDT by 1FreeAmerican
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To: Hojczyk

Nothing

Bahagadi is an Iraqi problem


32 posted on 03/13/2017 4:42:20 PM PDT by Thibodeaux (the long night is over)
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To: 1FreeAmerican

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33 posted on 03/13/2017 4:51:05 PM PDT by 1FreeAmerican
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To: 1FreeAmerican

Oh well! - mod please remove both posts and Thanks!


34 posted on 03/13/2017 4:53:35 PM PDT by 1FreeAmerican
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To: 1FreeAmerican

35 posted on 03/13/2017 4:56:20 PM PDT by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) Forward to the glorious world of next Tuesday !)
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To: Hojczyk

Put him under House Arrest at the 0bama’s Compound.


36 posted on 03/13/2017 4:57:16 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: Hojczyk

I can imagine him in a federal prison. The liberal lawyers would make sure he lives in luxury. He will be a leftist icon. Colleges will rename their libraries after him. “Human rights” groups will demonstrate in his favor. He will broadcast lectures from prison. He will deliver talks titled, “How to Beat Your Wives” and “The Uses of Child Slaves” and leftist and radical feminist groups will be eager to listen to his lectures and praise them.


37 posted on 03/13/2017 4:58:34 PM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: unlearner

Whether I agree with this will depend on if the Pay-Per_View charge will be reasonable for everybody.


38 posted on 03/13/2017 4:58:50 PM PDT by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll eventually get what you deserve)
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To: Hojczyk

If the Trump administration is smart it wont capture Bagdadi but instead have shoot to kill orders. Then drop the carcass from a plane into the middle of the ocean.


39 posted on 03/13/2017 5:01:42 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: moose07

Thanks Moose! I knew someone would come to my rescue!


40 posted on 03/13/2017 5:01:51 PM PDT by 1FreeAmerican
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