Obama perfect ambassador for apology tour of Afghanistan
President Joe Biden ought to name Barack Obama ambassador to Afghanistan.
Who better than the former president to apologize for the U.S. and bond with the old terrorist leaders of the “new” Taliban Islamic fundamentalists who are now running Afghanistan?
Of course, the appointment could not take place before Biden grants official U.S. recognition to the now “professional and businesslike” Taliban-controlled state.
The next thing you know, Biden will sponsor the Taliban for membership in the United Nations, which would mean that Taliban diplomats will get to reside in New York, the city they tried to destroy 20 years ago.
The thugs and murderers who now control Afghanistan would welcome a bowing Obama with open arms. They owe him. They would not even be around had not Obama and Biden, Obama’s cheerleading vice president, set them free.
Spreading goodwill, Obama could arrive in Kabul with a planeload of cash to hand out the way he used to do with the Iranian terrorists in Tehran.
It was Obama/Biden who in 2014 released the Taliban
Five from Guantanamo in exchange for U.S. Army deserter Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.
Bergdahl had been captured and imprisoned by the Taliban after deserting his post and leaving his weapon behind, before wandering into the arms of the Taliban.
Four of those five terrorists — who promised not to return to the battlefield — are now, thanks to Obama, part of the Taliban’s hardline government in Kabul.
“I guess Obama thought they were going to work at McDonald’s,” one veteran bitterly observed.
Even a cashier at Market Basket could have predicted it was only a matter of time before the terrorists returned to the battlefield.
“It’s a good day,” Obama, with Bergdahl’s parents at his side, said at a Rose Garden ceremony upon Bergdahl’s release after five years of captivity. “While Bowe was gone, he was never forgotten,” Obama said.
Susan Rice, then Obama’s national security adviser — and who now is a top Biden adviser — said Bergdahl had served with “honor and distinction.”
Jen Psaki, Biden’s press secretary, also hailed the terrorist trade deal. As press spokesperson for the State Department back then, she said, “Was it worth it? Absolutely.”
Of course the deal was worth it — to the Taliban, not the U.S..
Bergdahl, to avoid prison time, pleaded guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. He was fined and given a dishonorable discharge.
Obama made no mention — then or since — of the six Americans who were killed or wounded during an extensive search for Bergdahl after he went missing. Nor did he mention he swapped five hard-core terrorists for Bergdahl’s release.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken, then deputy national security adviser, said at the time that the activities of the released terrorists would be “very carefully monitored” in the event they sought to return to the battlefield.
“There will be restrictions on their travel, on their activities,” he said.
What a joke. Blinken, who approaches the Taliban like a hovering waiter, is now is pleading with the very same terrorists to free Americans that Biden abandoned with his mindless and humiliating evacuation of Afghanistan.
Now the former Gitmo detainees are making the people who released them from prison grovel. And nobody seems better at groveling before the Taliban than Blinken and the State Department.
It that were not embarrassing enough, the Taliban made it a point to make its new cabinet appointments just before Saturday, the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers that took 3,000 lives.
Four of the Taliban Five were named to top positions. Another terrorist, Sirajuddin Haqqani, a killer who has American blood on his hands, is now the minister of the interior. He is wanted by the FBI with a $5 million reward for his capture.
That’s who Biden and Blinken will be dealing with. So they need help.
And that is where Ambassador Obama comes in. He set the Taliban Five free. It is only fair he be rewarded for his foresight. A planeload of cash will help, too.
Remember, when they go low, we go lower.