Obama releases Bin Laden Bodyguard and Transfers him From Gitmo to Montenegro (radical, Somali)

[pknopp]

Originally Posted by Tyster

The Japanese surrendered. The Taliban still has designs on the Afghan government. Are you under the impression that they've given up?

How is it our job to police Afghanistan for eternity? We have no right to do that. Pakistan was protecting OBL for years. Why didn't we attack them?

[pknopp]

Originally Posted by Jimmyp25

Actually , the Taliban is making quite a comeback... they still are hiding in the mountains . Waiting for that withdrawal

So despite our being there for 15 years, having had many Americans killed while killing thousands and wasting trillions of dollars we haven't really done anything?

[odanny]

Originally Posted by Tyster

The Taliban were mostly foreign interlopers who filled the power vacuum left behind by the Soviet departure. They've been there since the late 1980's, not a thousand years.

Learn your history, you are making yourself sound foolish.

Al Qaeda is/are the foreign interlopers.

[desertdetroiter]

Originally Posted by yueng-ling

They can be considered POWs. Since the war is not officially ended, it is valid to imprison POWs. Some American POWs cannot return home either.

POW's for what? No war has been declared.

Originally Posted by Tyster

They formed an alliance with Bin Laden and harbored him after 9/11. Fact.

And most of the original Taliban were from Saudi Arabia. It was never their country.

So what if they formed an alliance with Bin Laden? He's dead.

Originally Posted by Tyster

Every single one of the turds detained in Gitmo has a lawyer, often more than 1. They get fair hearings in a military court.

Due process.

You're kidding me, right?

Originally Posted by Tyster

Agreed. We should have done something about it. But that doesn't mean going after the Taliban was wrong. It was the correct thing to do.

After we found Bin Laden, the war against the Taliban should've been over.

Originally Posted by Tyster

The Japanese surrendered. The Taliban still has designs on the Afghan government. Are you under the impression that they've given up?

So what? We have no national interests in Afghanistan.

[Tyster]

Originally Posted by Goodnight

Did the Taliban ever invade the US?

A nonsense question from a nonsense person.

[pknopp]

Originally Posted by Tyster

A nonsense question from a nonsense person.

Answer it anyway.

[desertdetroiter]

Originally Posted by pknopp

Answer it anyway.

LOL....good luck with that.

[Goodnight]

Originally Posted by Tyster

A nonsense question from a nonsense person.

Well coming from a person that thinks it's fair to hold people in jail for 10 years without a trial I will take your criticism for what it's worth, nothing.


I guess it's now a crime to fight people invading your country. Maybe you missed the hypocrisy of the US having at one time supported the Taliban to fight the Russians.

[bluesjuke]

Originally Posted by golimar

You don't release soldiers while you are still at war with them.
The Left says love and empathize with their allies; the Jihadists. Now they are releasing them back into the battle field to kill more Americans. Treasonous!

Yes, it certainly is just that.

[Stymie13]

I'm no apologist. But either declare war or nullify the war powers act and amend to state all authorization of force must come from formal declarations.

Yes, it limits response time. It's less practical in today's forms of conflict. But it removes our own internal discord on the use of force and the resultant issues, like this.