Powerline raises this provocative question and reveals that this is what expert Andrew McCarthy thinks is happening. Apparently the Muslim Brotherhood's Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi -- a man dedicated to world domination by Islam-- has been recruited by the US to mediate secret negotiations with the Taliban. Details here.
Imagine what US combatants holed up in some freezing bunker in Afghanistan, must feel, enduring daily terror, the death and crippling of their comrades, knowing that all the sacrifice could soon be thrown away just so that a politician can claim to have ended two wars and boost his chances for re-election. Despicable. Obama has no moral right to ask this of brave men. It's like Churchill and FDR invading Nazi-occupied Europe while simultaneously negotiating with Hitler for a withdrawal of Allied troops.
Imagine what US combatants holed up in some freezing bunker in Afghanistan, must feel, enduring daily terror, the death and crippling of their comrades, knowing that all the sacrifice could soon be thrown away just so that a politician can claim to have ended two wars and boost his chances for re-election. Despicable. Obama has no moral right to ask this of brave men. It's like Churchill and FDR invading Nazi-occupied Europe while simultaneously negotiating with Hitler for a withdrawal of Allied troops.