The Real Goal Behind the Bergdahl Deal

AP/Real Clear Defense ^ | June 5, 2014 | By Kathy Gannon

[Brad from Tennessee]

The announcement that the U.S. government had secured the release of missing U.S. Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl and that it was freeing five senior Taliban figures from Guantanamo Bay has been portrayed first and foremost as a prisoner exchange. But the four-year history of secret dialogue that led to Saturday's release suggests that the main goal of each side may have been far more sweeping.

It was about setting the stage for larger discussions on a future peaceful Afghanistan.

As The Associated Press first reported in 2011, talks about releasing the five senior Taliban reach back to at least late 2010, following nearly a decade of war. In the beginning, the name of Bergdahl, who was captured in mid-2009, was not even part of the equation.

The Taliban have sought a prisoner release from the beginning of their contacts with U.S. negotiators, while the U.S. side was looking for confidence-building gestures to keep the conversation going, with the ultimate aim of bringing hostilities in Afghanistan to an end. . .

[Brad from Tennessee]

Make a long story short--the Administration was willing to take the short end of the prisoner swap in hopes that these cave dwelling savages would entertain a "larger conversation" about the future of Afghanistan.

[Responsibility2nd]

A more peaceful Afghanistan, huh?

God, these people are freaking idiots.

[MeshugeMikey]

[E. Pluribus Unum]

And this clown wants to tell Israel what to do.

[Resettozero]

Good report.

The idea sprang to me while reading this that the three Bergdogs were complicit with this plan from the outset. If so, they all are treasonous.

[immadashell]

The Muzzie In Chief just wanted to get his good buddies out of Gitmo.

[thackney]

Gov. Rick Perry appeared with KTRH’s Sean Hannity on Fox News to ask some questions of his own about the Bergdahl case. “I really would like for somebody to take a look at this and answer it,” said Perry. “Was this done to take the VA (scandal) off the front page of the newspapers?” Perry said the timing of the Bergdahl release is suspect, especially since it happened without any notification of Congress, as is required by law for the release of any Gitmo detainee. “What is the strategy, what is the foreign policy that is going into place here,” asked Perry. “Is it just haphazard, is it just whatever we need to do to move a press story?”

Read more: http://www.ktrh.com/articles/houston-news-121300/texas-leaders-sound-off-on-prisoner-12427121#ixzz33mF6jyW1

[Resettozero]

Rick is not sharp and gets his ideas from reading week-old FReeper posts. Which is better than reading/watching the daily news.

[QT3.14]

The Muzzie In Chief just wanted to get his good buddies out of Gitmo.

[Sacajaweau]

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2014/05/22/Congress-rejects-AUMF-sunset-amendment-war-on-terror-to-continue-Guantanamo-still-open/3121400794485/

[Gaffer]

Obama doesn’t give a flying crap about Afghanistan’s future save the exception that it not include the US and in a manner that can be connected to him.

[Responsibility2nd]

Gov. Rick Perry appeared with KTRH’s Sean Hannity on Fox News to ask some questions of his own about the Bergdahl case. “I really would like for somebody to take a look at this and answer it,” said Perry. “Was this done to take the VA (scandal) off the front page of the newspapers?” Perry said the timing of the Bergdahl release is suspect

 

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Boo-yah! Perry nailed it. I read this point a few days ago here at FR and I've been repeating it often. The Bergdahl scandal was created to take the heat off the VA scandal.

We are on scandal overload here folks. And have been since the Kenyan Regime began

[SC DOC]

It's all about closing Gitmo one way or another

[defconw]

Well now, let's not be to hasty. Maybe Barack should just go over there by himself. He could just go cave to cave and you know, organize them.

[Tenacious 1]

A farmer has a problem with Coyotes eating his chickens. Obama’s solution.....

Just put a chicken or too out away from all the other chickens every night and the coyotes will leave the chickens alone.

That is the extent of our nation’s foreign policy logic these days.

[Pecos]

He has already told Israel what to do.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

But Israel has paid him no heed.

Thank God.

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

The Taliban have sought a prisoner release from the beginning of their contacts with U.S. negotiators, while the U.S. side was looking for confidence-building gestures to keep the conversation going, with the ultimate aim of bringing hostilities in Afghanistan to an end. . .

We delayed the release of this 'hero' for politics? Is that what they are saying?

[Tenacious 1]

I read this point a few days ago here at FR and I've been repeating it often. The Bergdahl scandal was created to take the heat off the VA scandal.

I don't know if I was the first to postulate this. But I believe it. Further, I honestly think Obama 1) Didn't know the controversy around Berghl's desertion and 2) Planned to keep the prisoner relase from Gitmo TOP SECTRET. This is why he had to sneak the release illegally.

Look for Obama to some day use the Iran Contra Affair as precedence for his subversive and illegal pursuit in this matter.

[thackney]

Who else was saying that on a major news network?