When Mullah Baradar, the Taliban military commander, was captured last month in Pakistan, it was hailed as a great success in the Global War on Terror. One problem I had at the time was that every newspaper headline I saw stated something like this: "Taliban military commander ARRESTED in Pakistan." (Emphasis added). When will we get it straight? We ARREST bank robbers, burglars, rapists and other reprobates; we CAPTURE or KILL Taliban military commanders or other similar enemy combatants. Got it? This all started, sorry to say, when George W. Bush declared his intentions re Osama bin laden were to "bring him to justice." That language seemed to indicate that Bush was thinking of bin laden as a common criminal - big mistake. Now, the Obama administration, which some months ago declared that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (911 mastermind) would be tried in U. S. District Court in Manhattan, might be responding to the will of the people and rethinking that ludicrous decision. It's definitely time that our government understand the difference between domestic criminals (who, as citizens, enjoy constitutional rights) and crazy Islamic terrorists hell bent on destroying our way of life.
Anyway, back to the "arrest" of Mullah Baradar: turns out it might not have been such a big success after all. In fact, something very troubling about the below linked piece from Marc Thiessen at The EnterpriseBlog, is the statement that Pakistani Interrogators have learned nothing from Baradar. Sorry, but if Pakistani Interrogators have learned nothing from Baradar (and he is still alive) then Pakistani Interrogators didn't want to learn anything from Baradar. That's troubling.
Here's the Thiessen piece:
Bungling Baradar’s Interrogation?
