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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow much should Americans fear the "Taliban Five"?
Do we need to increase the defense budget to handle the new threats?
Or is it possible that we have information about these prisoners, such as family members and friends and hometowns, and that it would be very difficult for them to hide?
And we have drones...
We should beware of the fear mongers that would lead us to believe that these five known individuals are just as dangerous as five unknown al Qaeda leaders hiding in the caves next to their bin Laden prayer beads...
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)JI7
(89,249 posts)randys1
(16,286 posts)new Bradley tanks and 200 new Aircraft carriers all with nuclear warheads
I get your sarcasm, amazing isnt it how much money we will hand to defense contractors to defend us from guys hiding out in caves.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)unblock
(52,227 posts)951-Riverside
(7,234 posts)No one over there is going to trust guys who have been held by Americans for years. Their choice is either get their heads chopped off by a neighbor or join the rebels in Syria and receive orders from an "unnamed" centralized intelligence organization.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)right
underpants
(182,803 posts)I pooped a hammer
Liberal Veteran
(22,239 posts)Some people might say it was the pot of coffee I drank before bed, but I know better.
Zorra
(27,670 posts)lostincalifornia
(3,639 posts)TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)with some freedom, and a little bit of rope in which to possibly hang themselves, so to speak. And if they sneeze the wrong way, they are hopefully vaporized and that solves the final problem of worrying about them post-Gitmo.
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)are more concerning to me.
Maedhros
(10,007 posts)These people aren't supervillains.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Matt Lauer, sporting his frowniest face yesterday, wondered if the Obama administration hadn't put the lives of every American in danger by releasing the Taliban Five. I didn't stick around for Lauer's report, but the question was teased twice on the local station's promo and used once during the show's intro segment. So if NBC is wondering whether five guys are enough to conquer the United States and put every man, woman and child in our nation into their graves, as their oft-repeated question implied, I think we should all be duct-taping something right fucking now!
mfcorey1
(11,001 posts)odds are there will be a serial shooting in an American city before those five slim balls act.