Aggregator • Hyscience • ID=88861 |
It does not take much more than Hussein Obama opening his mouth to know that he is no historian. Victor Davis Hanson on the other hand, a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution and Stanford University, is. We would do well to seek council when it comes to history anywhere other than from he who currently occupies the White House.
Answers on Bergdahl coming -
Soon we shall get to the bottom of the swap of five Taliban kingpins from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility for one Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.
earn whether Bergdahl really served with "honor and distinction" and was "captured on the battlefield," as National Security Adviser Susan Rice has stated. Or whether, as fellow soldiers of his platoon insist, he was a deserter who left his comrades to seek out the Taliban.
We will soon discover whether Bergdahl's serious health problems or imminent danger prompted President Obama to make the sudden swap. Or whether, as administration skeptics insist, the deal was a rushed political gambit to divert attention from the Veterans Affairs scandal -- and a way to whittle down the Guantanamo population and erode laws demanding congressional approval before such detainees are released.
Amidst the swap conundrum, the president has defended the trade by referencing history and the American experience in past wars.
But here, too, what the president states is not accurate. Obama insisted that, "We have a rule, a principle, that when somebody wears our country's uniform and they're in a war theater and they're captured ... we're going to do everything we can to bring 'em home. ... And regardless of whatever circumstances there are, it is our obligation to bring them home."
Yet the United States has not routinely sought to bring captives home, "regardless of whatever circumstances there are." More here.
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