Nos genuflectitur ad non princeps sed Princeps Pacem!
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)
Posted on 05/07/2012 4:52:36 AM PDT by nuconvert
The US has been secretly releasing captured Taliban fighters from a detention center in Afghanistan in a bid to strengthen its hand in peace talks with the insurgent group, the Washington Post reported Monday.
The "strategic release" program of high-level detainees is designed to give the US a bargaining chip in some areas of Afghanistan where international forces struggle to exercise control, the report said.
Under the risky program, the hardened fighters must promise to give up violence and are threatened with further punishment, but there is nothing to stop them resuming attacks against Afghan and American troops.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Silly me, I thought releasing detainees (especially high level ones) would decrease one’s set of bargaining chips.
But....what do I know. After all, we’re having so much sucess with the Taliban. [/s]
Its amazing that a bunch of illiterate, pre-Medieval tribesman can make such an ass out of a Superpower.
and the islamists no longer whisper nor wink, but now shout to us ... assholes!
How many of our men and women died or were injured in capturing these war criminals?
They've actually got a good record of exposing the incompetence of their foes:
Brezhnev
Andropov
Chernenko
Gorbachev
Playboy Clinton
Rambo Bush
And the current Clueless One in the White House
Bet the recidivism rate is akin to what we would experience if we began releasing death row inmates en masse!
Oh Yeah. Thats gonna work.
Catch and release works well with game fish - it keeps their numbers up. Why not try it with terrorists?
Surrender is never pretty and we are on our way out. Much like GWB did to Obama, Obama will hand this mess over to a Romney if he loses the election,
Treacherous, traitorous bastards.
So, while our personnel are fighting and dieing against the Taliban, this admin is releasing the ones we catch...who, no doubt, despite whatever prmoises to the contrary, come back to fight and kill our people and afghan citizens.
Another but far more deadly catch and release program.
The Man who Despises America
http://www.jeffhead.com/obama-time.htm
I guess the obamites figured we’d all wake up some day and notice GITMO was empty and not wonder why. and just cheer Barry when he “closed” it
I suppose the s”trategic release” deal is that these hardened jihadi sociopaths not commit mayhem againstt Americans here or abroad until “after” the US elections
Surrender is NOT peace
Obama’s election loss insurance, just in case he’s not in position to continue his destruction of America.
These terrorist will be able to attack again.
Uh,....you do realize the only reason they beat the Soviets was because we gave them Stinger missiles, right?
You can go back further than that
“a war begun for no wise purpose, carried on with a strange mixture of rashness and timidity, brought to a close after suffering and disaster, without much glory attached either to the government which directed, or the great body of troops which waged it. Not one benefit, political or military, was acquired with this war. Our eventual evacuation of the country resembled the retreat of an army defeated”.
G.R. Gleig, 1843, British military chaplain
One of the few survivors of the first Anglo-Afghan war (defeat of Britain in Afghanistan)
Or, as Rudyard Kipling wrote in “The Young British Soldier”
..........
When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An’ go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
So-oldier ~of~ the Queen!
...... Rudyard Kipling
This truly is Treason.
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