Date: 2014-06-04 12:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hardblue.livejournal.com
For what it's worth, here is the positive spin on the deal:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/06/bowe_bergdahl_and_negotiating_with_the_taliban_why_the_deal_to_free_this.html

The Taliban is a faction of the war in Afghanistan, not terrorists, so that this is a basic prisoner exchange, and there will likely be more negotiations.

I'm not sure how to feel about it myself.

Date: 2014-06-04 12:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] yes-justice.livejournal.com
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Date: 2014-06-04 12:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hardblue.livejournal.com
The nightmare scenario, I imagine, is that a result of these deals
is an uptick in terrorist attacks on the West.

Date: 2014-06-04 01:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hardblue.livejournal.com
Well, that certainly isn't going to help Obama.

Date: 2014-06-04 03:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fizzyland.livejournal.com
He's definitely not getting re-elected.

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Date: 2014-06-04 08:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] joshthevegan.livejournal.com
Ah, Rambo III, one of my favorite installments in that beloved franchise. The fact that John and Col. Trautman basically take on the entire Soviet army (tanks included) with little more than a knife and one gun is reason enough to love it.

Date: 2014-06-04 12:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hardblue.livejournal.com
Whoa, whoa, whoa, that he is a convert
and possibly trained his captors is a new one on me.
Is that strictly a right-wing blogosphere thing?

Date: 2014-06-04 03:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fizzyland.livejournal.com
I can tell you've never served on a jury.

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Date: 2014-06-04 04:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theweaselking.livejournal.com
Is that strictly a right-wing blogosphere thing?

Yes. But you're talking to someone who takes Matt Drudge, Fred Phelps, and Glenn Beck seriously. So even though it's only a right-wing blogosphere thing with no relation to any real facts at any time, she thinks it's real. Because she doesn't know how to begin to tell fact from fiction. Just check her history here.

In the mean time, youaredumb.net has a hilarious take on it. (http://www.youaredumb.net/node/2448)

Date: 2014-06-04 10:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fizzyland.livejournal.com
He said it was a hilarious take on it, not a trusted news source. Which Drudge isn't either.

Date: 2014-06-04 01:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theweaselking.livejournal.com
In response to a comment about your problems in telling fact from fiction and vetting sources, you mistake commentary *that is clearly marked as commentary* for a source of facts.

Just, wow.

I don't think I could make you up.

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Date: 2014-06-04 03:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rose-cat.livejournal.com
What's wrong with becoming a Muslim?

Date: 2014-06-04 08:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] usekh.livejournal.com
How would you know, you lived in those countries? Ever spoken to a Muslim? had a Muslim co-worker? Boss? Friend?

Date: 2014-06-04 07:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cinnamontoast.livejournal.com
WTF does that have to do with being Muslim? I live in a small town in the US and have Muslim families living on my street.

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Date: 2014-06-04 03:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cindyanne1.livejournal.com
Yeah, I'm a bit gobsmacked by the whole thing. It seemed so sudden, although I'm sure it wasn't as sudden as it seemed to the general public... but I'm just left thinking, "What the heck just happened here?" :\

Date: 2014-06-04 03:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hardblue.livejournal.com
Obama has been letting his Love & Happiness flag fly
at the end of his presidency. In addition to this, there is
the big initiative on climate change, and there is also
the promise of letting go a lot of non-violent prisoners
who are up on drug offenses. It's as though he wants
to be all the Hope & Change he promised to be before
his term is up.

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