America as pawn: The Bergdahl Caper and the fight for Afghanistan’s post-American future

 

Getting the band back together: Omar and the boys.

New post up at Liberty Unyielding.  Enjoy!

U.S., setting example for Israel, releases Taliban terrorists

On 28 July, Jonathan Tobin asked, at Commentary, if the U.S. would release terrorist killers as a precondition for talks – the measure Secretary of State John Kerry was demanding of Israel.

A couple of days later, in an almost supernaturally handy turn of events, we had the answer: yes.  The U.S. did exactly that at the end of July, agreeing to release five Taliban terrorists we’ve been holding at Guantanamo, in order to jumpstart the initiative – mainly ours – for talks with the Taliban.

Daniel Greenfield points out at FrontPage that in June,