About a year ago we all heard about the trade with the Taliban of Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl for five Taliban members who had been held in Guantanamo Bay. Obama said “we don’t leave men and women in uniform behind.” I agree, but that doesn’t give the whole story.
If we had not made the trade with the terrorist organization, would we have been leaving him behind? My opinion is that we would not have been. There were initial reports of this happening, but now, a year later, an NCIS reports indicates he deliberately left the US Army in 209 to join the Taliban. In other words, we didn’t leave him behind, he left us.
Some of the five Guantanamo detainees immediately returned to terrorist activities and while the trade agreement said the five would remain in Qatar for a year, it does not seem there was any ban from involvement with terrorist activities.
What happened to the US not negotiating with terrorists? I guess it doesn’t count if you trade five experienced terrorists for a single inexperienced one.
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