A former Pentagon spokesman joined the chorus of conservatives who criticized the prisoner exchange that secured the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, calling it the “most shocking military decision” he’s ever seen and asserting that Franklin D. Roosevelt never would released top Nazi leaders during World War II.
In a column Monday for FoxNews.com, J.D. Gordon was extremely critical of the Obama administration’s decision to release five senior Taliban figures held at Guantanamo Bay in exchange for Bergdahl.
“In 1943, could anyone imagine FDR releasing five of Nazi Germany’s top leaders for a disgruntled soldier? Though it’s good news that Bergdahl has been freed, I believe this grossly uneven prisoner exchange will encourage Al Qaeda and Taliban terrorists to seek out other U.S. military hostages,” Gordon wrote. “After Saturday’s swap, they are literally worth more than their weight in gold while in enemy hands.”
He repeated the point during an appearance Monday afternoon on Fox.
“I think our military is very upset and ashamed,” Gordon said. “They realize that there’s a bullseye on their back right now because al Qaeda, the Taliban see if they can capture a U.S. troop or even if a troop walks off-base, whatever the circumstances are, they’re going to be worth their weight in gold because the Taliban can now say, ‘OK, we want Guantanamo closed.’ Al Qaeda could say, ‘We want Khalid Sheikh Mohammed back.’ This this most shocking military decision I ever recall seeing.”
“This this most shocking military decision I ever recall seeing.”
Aiding and abetting torture isn’t shocking enough? The NSA which is under military rule isn’t shocking enough?
But a prisoner swap, which has been going on since the dawn of war, is somehow shocking?
Pathetic.
So instead of killing him, they will take him prisoner and use this to negotiate the release of other prisoners. Shocking!
Keep it up with the continuous Nazi analogies, it means very little to most people now.
Everything this administration does is the worstest thing ever that anyone can recall, ever, by anyone, ever. Why?
Osama Bin Laden is dead.
ACA is working very well.
The GOP won’t sniff the White House for a generation.
Yes. We would have traded with the Nazis if at the conclusion of hostilities they had some of our POWs.
By changing the taliban from an enemy we respect, to an “illegal” enemy, we lost the opportunity to treat their prisoners as POWs, which, let’s face it, they are. Exchanging POWs is normal.
I get so angry at these people.