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Recognize the Name Khairullah Khairkhwa?
He’s one of the five Taliban commanders released from GITMO in exchange for the deserter and traitor Bowe Bergdahl by the Obama/Biden administration. Remember the Rose Garden ceremony?
The jihadi beard might have been a giveaway. . . but, I digress.
Turns out Khairullah Khairkhwa was one of the negotiators for the withdrawal deal drawn up in 2019. Care to speculate where he is now? Maybe inside the presidential palace in Kabul?
Any American not incandescently angry about either the gross naivety or malicious stupidity of the Democrat establishment foreign policy “experts” (sneer quotes mandatory) isn’t very, well … American. Tar and feathers are too good for these people when blood runs in the streets of Afghanistan.
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Incandescent?
I was standing in a pile of sawdust. I did step aside in haste.
I know what you mean. We all must stay away from flammable materials for the duration.
Ultimately this is on Bush.
He should have advanced Military Tribunals for those Taliban and other terrorists in Gitmo early on when he had the people behind him and the bodies from the Twin Towers were fresh on our minds and executed them. Every one of them. Setting the precedent. By weaseling out with an interminable imprisonment it was inevitable that we would end up releasing them back to harm us in the future.
Remember Al Baghdadi? The caliph of ISIS?
I don’t disagree. Bush showed some of that gross naivety I referred to in the Democrat establishment foreign policy community. However, he didn’t seem to have the malicious anti-Americanism of the Democrats in power. So, plus one for Bush, minus two for Obama/Biden.
Another blast from the past. JustTheNews.com has Biden on nation building from yesterday and 2002.
Meanwhile 20 years and 2 trillion dollars later….
Germany and Japan were modern countries. Afghanistan has never crawled above the tribal and primitive.
That should have been a big clue.
Yes, but Bush had a weak character and punished the American people rather than the 9/11 terrorists for this. He didn’t even cause any of our security people on whose watch this happened to lose their jobs. People in the government, even if innocent, should lose their jobs for being unlucky rather than let the American people be punished. It would motivate their replacements not to be unlucky.
Hey, Barry! Maybe Khairullah is hiring. You could pick up some coin.
I am no apologist for Bush or his clan. They sicken me. And I agree with you on executing these evil bastards. However, do you remember outrage up to 11 over waterboarding. I had to talk my own brother (republican) off the cliff over this . Hell, I would of waterboarded them with bleach. If team Bush had started executing them, they would have impeached him. Republicans don’t get to be ruthless, only Dems.
It turns my stomach. Perhaps it’s better for ones health to just avoid the news altogether.
I’m sick too. Y’know, if I get angry at Ricochet I step out for a day or three. Can’t really step out from my country. Getting so angry.
Marika Partridge and her family drove a station wagon from India to England, straight through Afghanistan, in the 1960s. Marika’s mother commented in a tape recording about how short the girls dresses were in downtown Kabul, a thoroughly modern city.
Obama has a few years to go before collecting Social Security. Might like a chance to get out of the house.
I say B.S. It wasn’t Bush who released these idiots from Gitmo.
You left out deliberate malice.
Ding! I’ve been clean for about fifteen months.
Naivete? Where did Bush get the phrase “religion of peace” from? This was clearly not naivete, but disingenuous propaganda. He must have know that islam was not a religion of peace. Not even a neutral religion. He either knew he was wrong, or knew he could be and didn’t care.
And alcohol was illegal in the US for thirteen years. That law was not fit for our culture, and was repealed.
Afghanistan was part of the overland hippy trail from Europe to India. If a bunch of stoned white people managed to drive through it routinely without mishap that tells me the country was not that dangerous at that point. Many things changed, since then, but imho the Afghans are at least as much sinned against as sinners.
I was for going into Afghanistan, so I’ll defend Bush on that, but I will never forgive him for that inane, utterly downright stupid, and absolutely false statement about Islam being a religion of peace. It is anything but a religion of peace.
I think “ROP” was an indication of weakness before the PC police, not a malicious lie. He was hoping to placate Muslims who might bristle at criticisms and to avoid being called an “uncompassionate” conservative by lefties. And still got the Bushitler designation. That’s naivety. Republicans of every temperament should expect to be demonized by the Left. It’s all they’ve got, since they lack any rational arguments that withstand scrutiny.
We still can’t talk honestly about the inherent dysfunction in either Muslim cultures or black American culture as the cause of problems among Muslims or blacks. It’s always someone else’s fault — usually white, conservative (Christian) Americans. We’re just mean!
No kidding.
I can see what you say, but I’m going to argue the “slippery slope”. Slippery slopes are the way things have been going for decades. He started the “ROP” theme and it has grown and become cemented in at least foreign policy. He had to know it wasn’t true. I don’t think one way or the other about his being outright malicious, but then perhaps he was naively led into speaking a falsehood by his betters “for the good of the country”, or else he wasn’t deceived and took the easy route and said what he was told to say. Either way, he had no reason to believe it was true, or to say it.
Added: Sorry about my tone, but I’m trying to follow DHS guidelines and talk only about sunrises, blue skies, butterflies and trees. Peacocks and unicorns, waterfalls and fresh-picked green peas.
Now I feel better.
What would America have lost if he’d said the opposite?
If you want to isolate your enemies, and you do, don’t uselessly alienate your potential allies. For what?
Nonsense. his actions made their release inevitable. If he had set the precedent early and tried them and executed them, it would have been impossible to later release them.
I would go even beyond dysfunction. The roots of Muslim violence and terrorism is right there in their religious texts, the Koran, the Hadiths, in the life of Mohammed himself, of which good Muslims are supposed to emulate. Remember this: Christ died in establishing Christianity; Mohammed killed in establishing Islam. The violence is inherent to the religion.
I understand the practicality of it. But it has spawned future issues. He didn’t have to say anything.
We’ll know if he grows a beard . . .
It was his job to say what he could to smooth the path of the mission. No?
It is never ethical to lie to achieve one’s ends. Better to remain silent about the nature of the religion. He could still have said encouraging (and true) things about peace-loving Muslims.