So, speaking of timing, either Obama had the Bergdahl deal in his back pocket waiting for a new scandal to push off the attention radar, or having the Friendly Fire from the VA scandal just was a two-fer for him.
The Bergdahl deal might just be the Obama Doctrine solution to his problem with his base; when will Gitmo get closed? After all, now that the guys at the top of the bad guy list have bene released, what's the harm in releasing the lesser bad guys?
And how many American lives do you want to risk putting these bad guys back in custody?
Bottom line; Obama has just undone all the years of sacrifice and controversy we spent in Iraq and Afghanistan since 9/11/2001. Next time we go into an undeclared war, we need to set a requirement that we go into war, win it, solve the problem that created the need to go to war in the first place, and then come home. We have a moral obligation to minimize the need for war, but we do not have a moral obligation to re-build a country that was a mess in the firat place.
If we do want to go into the re-building business, we should start with someplace local like Detroit, and figure out what works before we keep experimenting all over the globe.
Have a good weekend, See you next Sunday.
As always, thanks for the thread, Alas.
Great post and exactly right.
By bringing the Taliban leadership back just at the time we leave Afghanistan the regime has destroyed everything we went to Afghanistan to do. This was obviously the game from the start of negotiations.