This makes sense because the Obama administration has a firm policy of not dealing with terrorists...

...unless it involves a pro-terrorist deserter.

Obama administration bullies Sotloff family.

Rules are Rules.

Strange Days....

....WTH is going on?


White House Overrode Internal Objections to Taliban Prisoner Release


Bill O'Reilly has gradually become more fed up with Obama over Obama's erratic management performance.

Well, "erratic" is probably not the right word.  Consistently bad is probably more apt.

In any event, tonight he's sourcing a White House insider who says that Obama knows that he will not accomplish his agenda, so he's decided that he doesn't care about public approval numbers and will do "what he likes."

Maybe wooly-headed "liberal" moves like handing back terrorists for an American-hating soldier who he can call a "hero" is what he likes.

Weird times.

You bring your soldiers home...

...unless they don't want to come home.

But you don't negotiate with terrorists and then treat a deserter like a hero.

What is it about that last part that the Obama administration doesn't understand?

//Which would be worse: If Obama didn’t know about the note before making the swap, or if he did know and went ahead with it anyway?

Sometime after midnight on June 30, 2009, Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl left behind a note in his tent saying he had become disillusioned with the Army, did not support the American mission in Afghanistan and was leaving to start a new life. He slipped off the remote military outpost in Paktika Province on the border with Pakistan and took with him a soft backpack, water, knives, a notebook and writing materials, but left behind his body armor and weapons — startling, given the hostile environment around his outpost…

Sergeant Bergdahl slipped away from his outpost, the former senior officer said, possibly on foot but more likely hiding in a contractor’s vehicle. “He didn’t walk out the gate through a checkpoint, and there was no evidence he breached the perimeter wire and left that way,” the ex-officer said…

Rear Adm. John F. Kirby, the Pentagon spokesman, said that there was a larger matter at play: The American military does not leave soldiers behind. “When you’re in the Navy, and you go overboard, it doesn’t matter if you were pushed, fell or jumped,” he said. “We’re going to turn the ship around and pick you up.”

Curiouser and curiouser.

Bergdahl may have been a Taliban collaborator: 

But if all that’s true … why was Bergdahl promoted in absentia to sergeant in 2011? Why would he be in line for another promotion, to staff sergeant, this month? And why would the White House let itself get within a thousand miles of the Bergdahl family with suspicions like these ready to bubble over? It’s one thing to do a deal to get an American back; it’s another to give away the terrorist farm as part of it; and it’s another still to give away the farm for a guy whom your own investigators think may be a Taliban sympathizer. Remember, the ostensible point of the prisoner exchange is to set a precedent so that Obama can release other detainees at Gitmo later this year and finally close the prison. The last thing you’d want to do in that case is trade five especially dangerous detainees for someone whose loyalty to the U.S. is in serious question even within the administration’s own ranks. It’s a political tornado in the making; if Bergdahl does end up being proved a deserter or worse, Democrats will run screaming from future Gitmo prisoner releases. Just doesn’t make sense. Maybe the White House has reason to believe that Bergdahl’s getting a bum rap and really was taken against his will — but in that case, why isn’t Carney or anyone else pushing back hard with that information? What’s going on here?