The trade that former President Obama made for Army deserter and Benedict Arnold, Bowe Bergdahl, keeps getting worse as it has been found that the five terrorists traded for him have rejoined the Taliban.
Now those five men will be among the contingent representing the Taliban as it negotiates a “peace” agreement in Afghanistan, The Military Times reported.
They will now be among Taliban representatives negotiating for peace in Afghanistan, a sign some negotiators in Kabul say indicates the Taliban’s desire for a peace pact.
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.
“The Taliban are bringing back their old generation, which means the Taliban have not changed their thinking or their leadership,” said Haroun Mir, political analyst in the Afghan capital. “What we are more worried about is if tomorrow the Taliban say ‘we are ready to negotiate,’ who will represent Kabul? That is the big challenge because the government is so divided, not just ideologically but on ethnic lines.”
Efforts to find a peaceful end to Afghanistan’s protracted war have accelerated since Washington appointed Afghan-American Zalmay Khalilzad as envoy to find a peaceful end to America’s longest war, which has already cost the U.S. more than $900 billion.
But Mohammed Ismail Qasimyar, a member of a government peace council, warned Washington against negotiating peace terms with the Taliban, saying Khalilzad’s only job is to set the stage for direct talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban, something the insurgents have so far refused, calling the government a U.S. puppet.
Taliban officials reported meeting with Khalilzad in Qatar earlier this month, calling the exchange preliminary but pivotal. Washington neither confirmed nor denied the meeting, but Khalilzad was in Qatar at the time.
What did we get out of this deal again?
Oh yeah, a deserter and betrayer of the United States who pled guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
Now the men we gave back for him are part of the enemy’s team again.
Who could have predicted that, other than everyone that has working brain cells, including President Donald Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. who called it “a disgrace.”
Who could have seen this coming??? What a disgrace. Thanks Obama. https://t.co/9VYvxr68Mu
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) October 31, 2018
He was not alone.
Of all the people at Guantanamo, none were as animalisticly evil as Mohammad Fazl
Fazl was one of Taliban’s top generals and is wanted for war crimes for personally burning and slaughtering entire villages of Shia Afghans
He murdered thousands
Barack Obama set him free
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) October 30, 2018
Former President #BarackObama released Jihadists from GITMO claiming they were “reformed.” We warned then, that they would join the Taliban.They did. The era of the catastrophic US national security policies should not come back. #VoteSmart on Tuesday
— Walid Phares (@WalidPhares) October 31, 2018
Obama exchanged 5 Taliban terrorists held in GITMO for Army deserter Bowe Bergdahl
Here’s how this story ends:
Bergdahl guilty of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, dishonorably discharged.
5 terrorist went back to being terrorists.
GREAT JOBhttps://t.co/sBqsHNpoJA
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) October 30, 2018
Thanks Obama https://t.co/n64BcqcyjL
— Amanda House (@AmandaLeeHouse) October 31, 2018
Barack Obama is the gift that keeps on giving…https://t.co/o48QP4muuK
— Charles Hoskinson (@cehoskinson) October 30, 2018
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