Or are we playing deadly games?
When I read crap like this and think about the blood and treasure we’re commiting to the fight, I am sickened:
More than 500 suspected Taliban fighters detained by U.S. forces have been released from custody at the urging of Afghan government officials, angering both American troops and some Afghans who oppose the policy on the grounds that many of those released return to the battlefield to kill NATO soldiers and Afghan civilians.
And those numbers understate the problem, military officials say. They do not include suspected Taliban fighters held in small combat outposts or other forward operating bases throughout the region who are released before they ever become part of the official detainee population.
An Afghan official who spoke on condition of anonymity said that President Hamid Karzai’s government has personally sought the release of as many as 700 suspected Taliban fighters since July, including some mid-level leaders. “Corruption is not just based on the amount of money that is wasted but wasted lives when Taliban return only to kill more NATO forces and civilians,” said the official, who opposes what he considers corruption in the Karzai administration.
U.S. Air Force Maj. Karen Davis, a spokeswoman in Kabul, told The Washington Examiner “nearly 500 detainees held in the [detention facility in Parwan] have been released outright or transferred to the [Afghan government] for disposition under Afghan law” so far this year.
She did not comment on detainees held at other facilities throughout the country, dozens of whom have been released, according to U.S. military officials in Afghanistan. Parwan is the main prison facility located at Bagram Airfield, just north of the capital of Kabul.
Davis added “nearly 200 of those 500 [at Bagram] have been released” since July.
I’m beginning to lean hard in the direction of bringing our men and women home. There’s no way that we can consider ourselves committed to the cause when we’re allowing those who kill and maim our troops to be cut loose to kill and maim again.
It sickens me. If this is indeed what we’re doing, if this is the strategy adopted by those who put our people in harm’s way, then to hell with the entire thing. Another lost life simply isn’t worth it.
Either fight this thing to end it and fight it ferociously… or get the hell out of there.
This is no longer a war with the objective of winning, it’s stupidity we’re sending our men and women into to be slaughtered. Enough is enough.
Fight or get out but don’t continue to this idiocy.
