THE BERGDAHL RANSOM

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Human Events:

t’s tough to remember things that happened six scandals ago in the Obama era, but you may recall there was quite a brouhaha around the deal made by President Obama to secure the release of captive Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, who departed his post when he felt the institution no longer had anything to offer him, and wound up enjoying the questionable hospitality of the Taliban. Basically, nothing Obama initially said about the Bergdahl deal turned out be, you know, true, and what he did might not have been entirely legal. (An old-fashioned notion, to be sure, but you kids may be surprised to learn there was a time when Americans expected the President to obey the law. If you were born after 1998, you’ll have to ask your parents about it.) The whole thing was supposed to be a poll-boosting photo op for the President, but it turned into a wild political melee, ending in a cloud of lingering doubts and unanswered questions.

 

One of those questions was how long it would take for the five Taliban big shots Obama traded for Bergdahl to make their way back into battle against America and her allies. According to Senator John McCain, that already happened, along with some 30 other released Gitmo detainees who resumed their careers as illegal combatants. I guess we won’t know for sure until some of those frequent Guantanamo guests return and get their customer-loyalty reward cards punched, assuming Obama hasn’t shut Club Gitmo completely by then. He’s got a pen and a phone, you know.