Obama releases Taliban prisoners while taking none among Romney donors

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Composites seem to be all the rage this month, with the revelation that Barack Obama used them for girlfriends in one of his books and now his campaign has invented Julia to represent something in the presidential campaign.

So, we decided it's our turn to provide a composite of two current news stories that seem to have been largely overlooked in the topsy-turvy news that's afflicting so many of us with dizziness, even six months out from the presidential election.

Both of these bizarre stories are true. They come to us courtesy of the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. How to put them both in credible form because they are so inherently unbelievable.

OK, here goes: The Post reports this week that during the Obama administration its military leaders have for some time been secretly releasing high-level enemy military captives from a prison in Afghanistan on the condition that they promise to help quell violence and not fight anymore. Scout's honor.

These are fundamentalist warriors who have been captured by U.S. and coalition forces at the cost of wounded and killed Americans and other troops involved in the struggle to crush al Qaeda and the Taliban there. They are set free by Americans as a sign of allied good faith to insurgent leaders.

During the more than 10-year conflict, now America's longest ever, 2,996 allied troops have perished. Of those, 1,961 were Americans, 97 of them dying so far just this year.

According to the Post's Kevin Sieff, his sources understandably sought anonymity and admitted that freeing senior enemy leaders during continued fighting with American men and women "poses substantial risks."

Do ya think?