{"id":42935,"date":"2021-08-18T18:34:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T22:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=42935"},"modified":"2021-08-18T18:34:17","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T22:34:17","slug":"bad-decisions-have-bad-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=42935","title":{"rendered":"Bad Decisions Have Bad Results"},"content":{"rendered":"

In October 2018 The Military Times<\/a> reported the following:<\/p>\n

Five members of the Afghan Taliban <\/a>who were freed from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay<\/a> in exchange for captured American Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl<\/a> have joined the insurgent group\u2019s political office in Qatar, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said Tuesday.Guantn<\/strong><\/p>\n

They will now be among Taliban representatives<\/a> negotiating for peace in Afghanistan, a sign some negotiators in Kabul say indicates the Taliban\u2019s desire for a peace pact.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Others fear the five, all of whom were close to the insurgent group’s founder and hard-line leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, bring with them the same ultra-conservative interpretation of Islam that characterized the group’s five-year rule that ended in 2001 with the U.S.-led invasion.<\/strong><\/p>\n

On Monday, The New York Post<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n

When\u00a0President Barack Obama released five Taliban commanders from the Guantanamo Bay prison in exchange for an American deserter in 2014<\/a>, he assured a wary public that the dangerous enemy combatants would be transferred to Qatar and kept from causing any trouble in Afghanistan.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In fact, they were left free to engineer Sunday\u2019s sacking of Kabul.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Soon after gaining their freedom, some of the notorious Taliban Five pledged to return to fight Americans in Afghanistan and made contacts with active Taliban militants there. But the Obama-Biden administration turned a blind eye to the disturbing intelligence reports, and it wasn\u2019t long before the freed detainees used Qatar as a base to form a regime in exile.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Eventually, they were recognized by Western diplomats as official representatives of the Taliban during recent \u201cpeace\u201d talks.
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…After raiding the presidential palace in Kabul, a group of armed Taliban fighters told Al Jazeera that they were arranging to bring back their Gitmo-paroled leadership from Qatar upon securing the capital. One unidentified fighter, who blasted America for \u201coppressing our people for 20 years,\u201d claimed he had also been locked up at the Guantanamo Bay facility. It\u2019s more evidence that Gitmo catch-and-release policies facilitated the fall of Afghanistan to the enemy that Washington vowed to crush after 9\/11.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leopards don’t really change their spots:<\/p>\n

The mastermind of the regime change is former detainee Khairkhwa, the Taliban mullah whom Obama released from Gitmo even though the Pentagon classified him as too dangerous to release.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article notes the behavior of the Taliban as they conquer Afghanistan:<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Khairkhwa assured the administration that the Taliban would not launch a spring military offensive if Biden committed to removing all remaining American troops. He also promised not to retaliate against any Afghans who worked with the US military or the US-backed government in Kabul. But Khairkhwa showed no signs of remorse or rehabilitation inside Gitmo \u2014 if anything, he\u2019s probably more embittered toward the United States. Why would they believe him?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reports coming out of Kandahar and Kabul indicate the extremists have already broken their word. Taliban thugs have started a reign of terror against people who cooperated with Westerners. Guided by a \u201ckill list,\u201d they are going door to door to punish their enemies.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The New York Post article concludes:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not clear if then-Vice President Biden was fully on board with Obama\u2019s\u00a0controversial\u00a0prisoner exchange. But in a reversal of Trump administration policy, Biden has restarted Obama\u2019s program to release Gitmo detainees as part of a renewed push to close the prison.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last month, the president released his first prisoner \u2014 accused terrorist Abdul Latif Nasser <\/a>\u2014 leaving the number of remaining detainees at 39. Ten others have been cleared for release, while still others have appealed to Biden through\u00a0their\u00a0pro-bono defense lawyers to ensure their release, despite the risk of them returning to militant activities like the Taliban Five.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If Obama and Biden had left the five Taliban thugs to rot in Cuba, Kabul more than likely would not be back in the clutches of the Taliban right now<\/a>. And maybe Americans wouldn\u2019t have sacrificed more than 2,400 troops and $1 trillion in vain.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Obama administration’s foreign policy decisions were not helpful to our nation. It looks as if the Biden administration has the same problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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