Perhaps. Nobody imagines that they are rehabilitated. But perhaps they have done their bit and have had enough. I suspect none of them are going to get themselves in position to be captured again.
OBL is now crab shit in the Arabian Sea, good with me if one of these guys joins him. The negotiation took a year they are reporting today. They did not get the top most dangerous detainees including KSM, don't you think they might have started with those guys and settled for these? No negotiator has yet stated that these were the original choices of the Taliban.
I get it. You would leave a soldier behind. Me and a lot of other people agree with Stanley McChrystal.
“We’re going to have to wait and talk to Sgt. Bergdahl now and get his side of the story,” he said. “One of the great things about America is we should not judge until we know the facts. And after we know the facts, then we should make a mature judgment on how we should handle it. We don’t leave Americans behind. That’s unequivocal.”
I haven't defended them. But those documents show that Obama has not made anti-American statements or been anti-American in any fashion.
I didn't say it was no big deal, I said that I understood that negotiations mean you have to offer something tangible.
Not only do presidents operate independently quite frequently, but statements from Senators this week indicate that they have been aware that negations have been gong on since 2011. Obama was not hiding this, but then the time came to make a decision it had to be done quickly. And he did so.
A statement by House Speaker John Boehner referred to "serious questions" he and others raised in briefings that date back as far as late 2011 and in followup correspondence.
It shows and it clouds your logic.
