Analyst's note: Yet another "strategic" move from our White House? If only we'd thought of such a move during WWII, we could have captured the SS on the battlefield and then released them for promises of peace from Hitler. Do you think the war might have ended sooner? Did the Senate approve of the signed 10-year partnership deal with Afghanistan? I'm just asking. Here is another great move from the same "strategic" thinkers ... Pentagon cuts troops, keeps civilians. This is more clear evidence that America Now Suffers 'Compulsory Blindness' even within our sr. military leadership. We've known for some time that our DoS is lost in political correctness.
"The US has been secretly releasing captured Taliban fighters from a detention center in Afghanistan in a bid to strengthen its hand in peace talks with the insurgent group, the Washington Post reported Monday.
The "strategic release" program of high-level detainees is designed to give the US a bargaining chip in some areas of Afghanistan where international forces struggle to exercise control, the report said.
[....] During his short visit, Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai signed a partnership deal that charts a 10-year relationship between the US and Afghanistan once the majority of American and foreign forces pull out of the country in 2014.
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