Yeah, this is gonna work. Fantasy-Based Policymaking Update: “Revealed: U.S. secretly releasing top Taliban insurgents in exchange for ‘peace pledges,'” by Suzannah Hills for the Daily Mail, May 7 (thanks to David):
Senior detainees are being secretly released by the United States from a military prison in Afghanistan as part of negotiations with insurgents to curb ongoing violence in the country.
American officials have been using prisoners as bargaining chips in a ‘strategic release’ program to reduce violence in troubled areas, the Washington Post reports.
The newspaper, quoting U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity, said freed insurgents must promise to give up violence in terms of their release.
Unrest: Afghan security personnel and NATO soldiers stand at the scene of suicide car bombing and Taliban militants’ attack in Kabul on a compound housing hundreds of foreigners in the Afghan capital on May 2Unrest: Afghan security personnel and NATO soldiers stand at the scene of suicide car bombing and Taliban militants’ attack in Kabul on a compound housing hundreds of foreigners in the Afghan capital on May 2
They are often Taliban fighters who would not be freed under the legal system for military prisoners in Afghanistan.
American officials would not say whether released prisoners have later returned to attack U.S. and Afghan troops, the Post said….
Oh, surely not. They would never do that.