Catching Up with the Taliban 5

A RedStateVT Exclusive
RedStateVT recently caught up with the Taliban 5, celebrating their release from Gitmo at the Jihadi Disco in Qatr. The group, known informally now as the T-5, were relaxing after a night of bogeying with the locals. What did you like least about Gitmo, we asked? The food, Mohammed said immediately. The other four jihadists, also named Mohammed, all nodded in agreement. 

How much goat can you eat they asked rhetorically. 

So what was the first meal you had once you were back on sacred ground we wondered. In unison, the Mohammeds shouted out: KFC!!!

How soon do you think you will be back fighting the infidels?

Mohammed said: "Well today is our eighth free day, so 365 minus eight is 357. Call it 357 days, Allah willing."

We asked, what do you think Obama should do in the Middle East? Exactly, what he has been doing, said the T-5.


Raggedy Andy
The platoon was, an American military official would assert years later, “raggedy.”

On their tiny, remote base, in a restive sector of eastern Afghanistan at an increasingly violent time of the war, they were known to wear bandannas and cutoff T-shirts. Their crude observation post was inadequately secured, a military review later found. Their first platoon leader, and then their first platoon sergeant, were replaced relatively early in the deployment because of problems. (New York Times, 6/8/2014)

Rising in defense of Obama's release of five "aging" or "hardened" Taliban (the paper cannot decide which), the Times decides to "swift-boat" Bowe Bergdahl's platoon. Their crime? They wore "bandannas and cutoff T-shirts." 

Oh the humanity....

In another apparent breach of military discipline the platoon also apparently "might have made it too easy for him to walk away.." Wait, isn't that desertion?


Hardly
In an apparent cost-savings move, the New York Times asks the Hillary "Inevitable" Clinton 2016 presidential campaign staff to review her book "Hard Choices." 

It's kinda like grading your own paper. 

Here is what they had to say: 

--The book itself, however, turns out to be a subtle, finely calibrated work that provides a portrait of the former secretary of state and former first lady as a heavy-duty policy wonk.

-- “Hard Choices” is a statesmanlike document intended to attest to Mrs. Clinton’s wide-ranging experience on national security and on foreign policy. 

--Mrs. Clinton displays a pragmatic, case-by-case modus operandi. 

--Mrs. Clinton’s main legacy lies in reorienting American foreign policy in a globalized, tech-savvy 21st century, and in helping restore the country’s image abroad in the wake of the Iraq war and the unilateralism of President George W. Bush’s administration.

--One of the few things this book shares with “Living History” is its emphasis on Mrs. Clinton as someone capable of growth and change

--Mrs. Clinton has always been a conscientious A-student

--she provides the lay reader — and potential voter — with succinct and often shrewd appraisals of the complex web of political, economic and historical forces in play around the world

This is the kind of hard-hitting analysis loyal readers have come to expect from that bastion of journalistic integrity, the New York Times. 

Next up from the Times, another cost-savings move wherein they have the Hillary "Inevitable" Clinton 2016 presidential campaign staff review Ann Coulter's latest book.