dilloduck
Diamond Member
Though Bergdahl's captivity might not be correctly called a "kidnapping" since he appears to have voluntarily walked over and joined them, the rest is as predictable as night following day.
The Taliban sees that they have uncovered a gold mine. Did some of your top people get captured by the Americans? No problem. Just grab a few Americans in turn, and the American "leaders" will fall down on their knees and let your people go back to you before you can take a deep breath.
And the Americans you managed to kill while your people were being captured, are "the icing on the cake" - you can have them for free.
Who wouldn't take a deal like that, and do everything they could to expand it?
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Taliban commander claims more kidnappings to come after Obama's hostage trade | Mail Online
Taliban commander claims more kidnappings will come now that Obama has completed his 5-for-1 hostage trade
by David Martosko, U.S. Political Editor
Published: 12:16 EST, 5 June 2014
Updated: 12:45 EST, 5 June 2014
A Taliban commander in Afghanistan said Thursday that Americans can expect to see more kidnappings to ransom accused terrorists held by the United States.
Terrorists under his command, the Taliban leader said, would work to take more Americans prisoner, since the Obama administration's deal to free Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has shown captive U.S. troops can be used as leverage.
'It's better to kidnap one person like Bergdahl than kidnapping hundreds of useless people,' the commander told TIME magazine.
'It has encouraged our people. Now everybody will work hard to capture such an important bird.'
I have a story to tell you.
When I was a little kid, I did stupid things like all kids do. Invariably, later on I was hard pressed to explain what possessed me to do X.
At one point, my father in frustration said the following to me.
"You behave as if stupidity were a virtue." It was funny...and true. I've never forgotten it.
Let's just move past the point about WHY in God's name you take the Taliban at their word since they likely need no other reason to kidnap Americans than the ones they already have. Truth is, if they could, they WOULD kidnap more.
So, now that I've jumped beyond the obvious, let me touch on something that's a wee bit more subtle, but not by much.
Do you think that the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan monitor the American media that's broadcast all around the world on satellite?
If the answer is yes, what are they seeing?
Answer: They're seeing and hearing conservatives attack Bergdahl AND the president and plunging our media into yet one more rhetorical fist fight. Hell, they helped orchestrate the whole thing with their propaganda video. To THEM, this is a GOOD thing.
Think they'd feel the way if the country just welcomed Bergdahl back, and we seemed united?
The Taliban have jerked your chain once already, and they're doing it AGAIN. And the REASON why they're doing it is because of YOU and people LIKE you who have this kind of reaction and turn the whole thing into a controversy which serves to do nothing but distract us as a nation and draw the attention of our leaders away from the war effort just to deal with this.
Under those circumstances, of COURSE the Taliban would love to kidnap another American if they thought they could recreate this kind of discord here at home.
So, again, I can't help but be drawn to those words of my father. Allow me to paraphrase it to make it accurate to the occasion.
Conservatives behave as if stupidity were a virtue!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh my----you have guilted me into being an Obama supporter. Thanks.