The Evidence: Obama Is Undermining U.S. Troops in Afghanistan to Put the Taliban in Power

[TONY SALAZAR]

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May  9, 2012

The Evidence: Obama Is Undermining U.S. Troops in Afghanistan to Put the  Taliban in Power

By Tara  Servatius

President  Obama has spent the last three years trying to figure out how to turn over  Afghanistan to the Taliban without taking the political heat for it. In the  process, the Obama Administration has committed a betrayal of our troops so  stunning that anything done to them in or after Vietnam pales in comparison.

While  the Taliban kills our troops and innocent bystanders in Afghanistan, the Obama  Administration is fighting to give them the  one thing they can't seem to win on the battle field: control over the  whole country.

It  is no accident that despite the deployment of 33,000 troops under Obama, the  Taliban in Afghanistan has thrived and grown, as documented by a recent  Congressional  report released earlier this week. This has happened while  the Pakistani Taliban and insurgent groups have been assassinated or bombed into  relative submission by our drones next door in Pakistan.

Why  haven't we been as successful, or as aggressive, in Afghanistan?  Evidence  is mounting daily that the Obama Administration has not only held back in  Afghanistan, but has deliberately undermined the war effort  there.

A  stunning Washington  Post piece on Sunday documented  how we've been secretly releasing captured combatants from Afghan jails to  placate the Taliban and other insurgent groups and entice them to negotiate with  us.  Administration officials wouldn't say if these terrorist thugs went on  to murder our troops, probably because they have.

Why  are we so interested in kissing up to these thugs?  Obama ultimately  intends for the Taliban to rule Afghanistan again, a development that could  destabilize the whole region.

It  is part of an administration policy called "legitimate Islamism," and  conservatives need to wake up and understand what it means. Basically, as  explained by an Obama surrogate in the National  Journal recently, Obama is seeking toput  radical Islamists in power in country aftercountry  on the theory that if they have a "legitimate" government  to run, they won't join Al Qaida and attack us.

So  far, Obama has succeeded in overthrowing or destabilizing secular forces  everywhere his administration has meddled except Afghanistan. From Libya to  Egypt to Yemen, the Obama administration has turned its back on or actively  removed leaders who -- whether we like them or not -- have kept radical  Islamists in check. In their place, administration officials have nurtured the  radical Muslim Brotherhood and other like-minded groups. In Afghanistan, the  Taliban are the administration's radical Islamic overlords of  choice.

Conservatives  haven't pieced all this together in part because they've been fooled by Obama's  aggressive drone bombing campaign next door in Pakistan, which has taken out  Pakistani insurgents and al Qaida members. The drone assassination campaign has  left the impression in conservative -- and American -- minds that Obama is  serious about destroying the Taliban, when what he merely intends to do is to  "redirect" their ambitions into power in Afghanistan, which he believes will  contain them.

Make  no mistake about it, Obama intends for the Taliban to rule or help to rule next  door in Afghanistan, even though the Taliban in Afghanistan is virtually  indistinguishable from its Pakistani counterparts.

The  only reason the Obama Administration has failed to put the Taliban in power in  Afghanistan so far is because Taliban leaders refuse to make progress in peace  talks that were supposed to "integrate" them into the national government. That  is because Taliban leaders refuse to "negotiate" until Obama releases their  buddies from Guantanamo. Problem is, Obama can't do that without the approval of  Congress. So he's stuck releasing the lower level terrorist thugs our troops  risk their lives to capture from our Afghan jails to placate the Taliban into  negotiations.

It  is the ultimate betrayal not just of our troops, who spend their days battling  the Taliban while the Obama Administration undermines them at the negotiating  table, but of the Afghan people, who were led to believe they could freely elect  the leaders who would govern them. If Obama and the State Department get their  way, the Afghan people will once again have Taliban overlords forced upon them  for the first time since 2001, when US troops gave their lives to set the Afghan  people free of Taliban rule.

If  they succeed, our entire war effort there will have been for nothing. In fact,  it's worse than that. The Taliban would not only regain control of a centralized  Afghan government, they'd also get something else they weren't able to achieve  when they controlled the country before the 2001 invasion: international  recognition of a Taliban-run Afghan government.

In  other words, credibility.

Sure,  the administration says the Taliban wouldn't be integrated into the government  unless they vowed to renounce violence, but that pledge is at best laughable,  given their track record of violence in the face of peace offer after peace  offer from us.

The  solution? Hard-core, no-holds barred drone warfare in Afghanistan until what  remains of the Taliban leadership is shattered. If that means killing thousands  of insurgents, that's what we must do.

With  their bomb plot in Times Square in 2010, the Pakistani Taliban has already  demonstrated that they are eager to attack on our soil. Given time and enough  power, their Afghan counterparts will do the same. That is, unless we stop them  there, to keep them from bringing the war here. That once was the policy of the  United States. It needs to be again.

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[Debrajoe Beatty]

Thanks. Obama is fighting for Muslim control of the world.

[Cheryl Jensen]

OB thinks he is their savior retuning and the Calefate is the end game.

[Bruce Forster]

Plain and simple....Obama is a TRAITOR!

[Johnny Smith]

Is there or has there ever been any doubt whatsoever that BHO was intent upon installing the mooslime brotherhood into all the ME countries possible. This is just the icing on the cake for him and his mooslime brothers, he wants to give world control to the mooslime nation and increase from 57 states as rapidly as possible.