“take former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, who wrote on her Facebook page: “You blew it again, Barack Obama, by negotiating away any leverage against the bad guys as these bad guys – Osama Bin Laden’s partners in evil crime – joyfully celebrate their ‘win’ in the deal you sealed.”
That is not remotely what Obama has just done. And amid all the fear and anger and, yes, paranoia, is the chance that the release of the Taliban five maybe – just maybe – will do some good. None of the men were ever charged with any crime against US citizens or soldiers, and the Afghan government has been eager to pen a reconciliation deal with the Taliban. US-installed President Hamid Karzai has repeatedly sought talks with the group, downplayed their threat, and criticized the money spent and blood spilled on his government’s behalf in America’s longest war.
Ending wars almost requires hard choices, and that moment has arrived for the US. A hard choice may prove to be a wrong choice, but it isn’t betrayal, and people that seek black and white clarity over Afghanistan need to look elsewhere.”
Wow, Dan. You’re really a moron.
“None of the men were ever charged with any crime against US citizens or soldiers”
Wasn’t one guilty of the war crime slaughter of a thousand people?
Just saying.
Only our war criminals ever get investigated.
The Obamza infantryman who murdered Momar Gaddafi (with our help, as Hillary Clinton herself claimed) killed a POW in captivity (after parading him around and torturing him).
The guys who slaughtered the noncombantant Brown & Root guys and hung them from a bridge, yadda yadda yadda
Only Commies could try to spin that these guys were innocent as a fresh snow fall.