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. 

Continuing Outreach Obama to Challenge Five Released Taliban to Pick-Up Hoop Game

Who Said It?
All along, Obama’s weakness has been the lack of a worldview. Problems are approached individually — unconnected to anything else — and often left to languish. We pivot to Asia . . . in a speech. We applaud the Arab Spring and promise hugs and kisses . . . in a speech. We call recent developments in Ukraine a success for U.S. policy, but Russia’s seizure of Crimea stands. Sure, this was not Obama’s fault, but it is not his success, either — and certainly not something to boast about.

What can be done? Although Obama is by nature a prudent man, there’s always the chance that he will overreact, attempt to show he is strong by doing something a tad reckless. In the meantime, no more speeches. They no longer work because they are no longer believed. They are coming attractions for a movie that never opens and merely reminds us all — the world’s bad guys most of all — of the president’s intellectually chaotic and bumbling foreign policy. Fix the policy, then give the speech. (Washington Post, 6/2/2014)

Was it: 
1) Charles Krauthammer
2) Ann Coulter
3) George Will
4) Liberal Washington Post Op-ed Writer Richard Cohen

If you guessed 4) you are today's winner!


Old and in the Way
Issues that had bitterly divided the Obama administration — about the wisdom of the prisoner swap and the risks of releasing a group of aging Taliban commanders from Guantánamo Bay — were swept aside in the rush to secure Sergeant Bergdahl’s release. (New York Times, 6/5/2014)

This is how the New York Times shills for the Obama administration. Those five terrorists that Obama released? They are "aging." In all likelihood they just want to go home and play dominoes. Call us skeptical, but we're guessing they still have some of the old jihad in their bones.

Sources Say Clinton to Pick Rev. Al Sharpton as 2016 Running Mate

A RedStateVT Exclusive
A well-place Democrat strategist speaking under deep cover and wearing one of those Groucho Marx eyeglasses with the fake eyebrows and mustache has revealed that inevitable Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is set to name Rev. Al Sharpton as her 2016 running mate. The strategist - we'll call him Elmo - explained the move: 

First, it was crucial to lock up Sharpton before other potential candidates such as Colonel Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Lying Bear Warren went after the (formerly rotund) Rev. "Clinton simply could not risk the optics of a Warren - Sharpton pairing," said Elmo. "A Native American woman paired with an African American man (and a preacher to boot!) would be tough to beat." In addition, Elmo said, the Clinton move made sense because with Obama and AG Eric Holder no longer in the picture in 2016, Democrats would need someone to gin up racial animosity, a key plank of the party. "Is there a single person in the country who has done more to fan the flames of racial unrest?" 

Elmo would not say if Sharpton would revive his 1970s track suit style. "It would make a lot of sense", Elmo said, "the look reminds many disaffected voters of the racial grievances of the past."


Struggling with Confusion
Sometime after midnight on June 30, 2009, Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl left behind a note in his tent saying he had become disillusioned with the Army, did not support the American mission in Afghanistan and was leaving to start a new life. He slipped off the remote military outpost in Paktika Province on the border with Pakistan and took with him a soft backpack, water, knives, a notebook and writing materials, but left behind his body armor and weapons — startling, given the hostile environment around his outpost. (New York Times, 6/3/2014)

Oh yeah, this is going just swimmingly for Obama. Does he ever touch anything that doesn't end up in a tangled mess?


Back to the Action
The president said the five Taliban figures sent to Qatar in return for Sergeant Bergdahl would be monitored. (New York Times, 6/3/2014)

Huge sigh of relief here. At first we were unsure of whether or not the released terrorists were going to be "monitored."


No Time
It took little time for Alison Lundergan Grimes, the Democrat who is challenging Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican minority leader, in the most high-profile Senate race this year, to distance herself from the Obama administration’s proposal for sharp cuts to emissions from power plants. (New York Times, 6/3/2014)

California Governor Jerry Brown is a gun owner, Senate majority leader Harry Reid is pro-life, and Kentucky's Grimes is pro-coal. 

Democrats all. 

When IS the Times going to write that article about disarray in the Democrat party?