Blowback

[reality_hammer]

This is only going to happen more often now that Obama is going to close Club Gitmo.
WASHINGTON - The Taliban's new top operations officer in southern Afghanistan had been a prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention center, the latest example of a freed detainee who took a militant leadership role and a potential complication for the Obama

Comments

[lazypadawan]

I agree. Kill 'em all and let Allah sort 'em out.

[saturnfall]

Oh no! He's coming right at you! *BANG*

[themeshuggener]

That's one policy my father and I discussed. The only way to carry out the battles against the enemies in Afghanistan and Iraq are to take absolutely no prisoners.

General: "Your company hasn't taken any prisoners in the firefights that you've been involved in the past few months."

Captain: "I don't know what it is, sir. We've encountered some of the most die-hard among them lately. They just won't quit."

[psychomatt]

I still like the one line from Patton: (May be slightly paraphrased) "A soldier's job is not to die for his country. It's to make the other bastard die for his."

[cutelildrow]

oh yes, yes yes this.

[themeshuggener]

You pretty much got it.

[writerspleasure]

but everyone at gitmo was an abused victim!