New reports from the Associated Press say that the Obama Administration is considering a plan to send a number of detainees from Guantanamo Bay to Bagram prison inside Afghanistan, with the hope that the move would kickstart stalled talks with the Taliban.
Previous talk of releasing detainees in return for talks seem to have been abandoned, and instead officials are now saying that a transfer to a Karzai-run prison, nominally outside of direct US control, would be enough to show interest in talks.
US talks with the Taliban ended before they’d really started in earnest, with the insurgents announcing in the wake of the Kandahar Massacre that they could no longer justify talking with the “erratic” US in the face of public outrage against them.
The pared back offer of Bagram instead of house arrest is mostly a function of the Obama Administration wanting to look tougher on terror, and to avoid criticism from Republicans in Congress, who blasted the old plan. In the end it seems unlikely it will accomplish anything, however.
As US was defeated in Iraq, although Obama and the US democratic party taking a political notion proclaiming that it was Obama who stooped the Iraq war, yet one needs to know that victory in Iraq war goes to Iraqi people. Iraq war was lost soon as it started, the plan (by Paul Wolfowitz) was for US and NATO – Israel to continue their war into Iran and Israel into Lebanon and further into Lebanon Syrian border where US Italian based navy would join in. Non was materialized, Israel lost its invasion of 2006 to Southern Lebanon, and US-NATO stock in Iraq and Afghanistan not knowing what to do next.
That is the reason for all that talk about "peace loving" US and NATO governments wanting to negotiate a peace after almost 14 years of killing people from Lebanon to Iraq and Afghanistan, committing all kind of war crimes and act against humanity, they have been losing all their wars from day one, from Vietnam to present war in Syria. Here, the irony is that they never learn, yet they are still talking about democracy and wanting to continue with their “idea” that democracy could be found in militarism, that democracy could be implemented by their way of implementing democracy which is their bombs and killings of innocent people.
“Obama Administration wanting to look tougher on terror”
The upper half of American society has two things: (1) All political power and all our wealth as it is the voting majority. (2) A desire to commit collateral murder with drones as they know such terrorism is the best way to protect their plundered wealth.
Therefore, just as soon as the lower half of society stops being so self-absorbed and indifferent, then we can have a good going Revolution and turn all things toward the good.