Thursday, March 26, 2015

What will be the Bergdahl Obama gets us in return this time?

WSJ reports:

    Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was freed by Afghan insurgents last May as part of an exchange for five Taliban prisoners, was charged Wednesday with having deserted his remote base before his capture in 2009.

    The military charges, resulting from a long-awaited but tightly guarded investigation, include desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. A conviction could lead to a dishonorable discharge from the military and, in the extreme, life in prison for Sgt. Bergdahl.

The Bergdahl affair should remind us just how bad President Obama is at negotiating with Islamic extremists. Mr Obama struck a deal with Afghan insurgents to swap five high-value Taliban prisoners being held in Guantanamo Bay for a single deserter. And then afterwards, Mr Obama held a Rose Garden press conference with Bergdahl’s parents to try to place the most positive spin possible on this shameful deal. It is difficult to imagine how Mr Obama could have been any more deluded and misinformed about the costs and benefits of the deal he was entering into.

And this is the very same President Obama who is now negotiating with the mullahs in Tehran on the question of whether Iran should be allowed to have nuclear weapons. If Obama was played for so big a fool in his negotiations with the Taliban, why, in Heaven's name, should we believe that he is going to be any less inept in his bumbling eagerness to close a deal with Iran?

We have arrived at a shocking state of affairs: Mr Obama is demonstrably a terrible negotiator and sees only what he wants to see; his foreign policy in the Middle East has been nothing but one fiasco after another; and yet, now he asks us to trust him that it is a good deal to grant to Iran, a terrorist state, a license to develop nuclear weapons it can use against Israel, our best ally in the region and a bastion of Western capitalism, technology, and democracy.

And for what? What will be the Bergdahl Obama gets us in return this time?

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