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Monday, August 24, 2009

Wrong Kind of Surge

The Obama administration is continuing it's pledge to send more troops into Afghanistan - only this time it isn't friendly troops.

On August 24, Mohammed Jawad became a free man after more than seven years as a detainee at Guantanamo bay. Back in 2002, young Jawad threw a grenade at a U.S. patrol - wounding two U.S. soldiers and their interpreter. Now, after years of rubbing shoulders with even more hardened terrorists than he, the Obama administration sent him back to Afghanistan, where presumably he will work in a bakery or a flower shop - or perhaps bomb another convoy.

As U.S. politicians bluster their disgust about the Lockerbie Bomber's release from prison so that he can go home and die in his native Libya, one might wonder why there isn't any hand-wringing (so far) about the U.S. government sending a young terrorist home completely healthy - where he is likely to rejoin the Jihad at a crucial moment in the war in Afghanistan.

Somehow I don't think these are the kind of reinforcements our over-stretched troops there were hoping for.
 

posted @ Monday, August 24, 2009 6:25 PM | Feedback (0)