Just F' it.. Between Obama and Karzi, we won't be allowed to win.

More than 500 suspected Taliban fighters detained by U.S. forces have been released from custody at the urging of Afghan government officials, angering both American troops and some Afghans who oppose the policy on the grounds that many of those released return to the battlefield to kill NATO soldiers and Afghan civilians.

And those numbers understate the problem, military officials say. They do not include suspected Taliban fighters held in small combat outposts or other forward operating bases throughout the region who are released before they ever become part of the official detainee population.

An Afghan official who spoke on condition of anonymity said that President Hamid Karzai's government has personally sought the release of as many as 700 suspected Taliban fighters since July, including some mid-level leaders. "Corruption is not just based on the amount of money that is wasted but wasted lives when Taliban return only to kill more NATO forces and civilians," said the official, who opposes what he considers corruption in the Karzai administration.

U.S. Air Force Maj. Karen Davis, a spokeswoman in Kabul, told The Washington Examiner "nearly 500 detainees held in the [detention facility in Parwan] have been released outright or transferred to the [Afghan government] for disposition under Afghan law" so far this year.

She did not comment on detainees held at other facilities throughout the country, dozens of whom have been released, according to U.S. military officials in Afghanistan. Parwan is the main prison facility located at Bagram Airfield, just north of the capital of Kabul.

Davis added "nearly 200 of those 500 [at Bagram] have been released" since July.

The criteria for detention is not based upon a particular affiliation, such as the Taliban, "but rather is an assessment based upon a preponderance of evidence that an individual participated in the conflict as an enemy combatant and, if so, detention is necessary to mitigate the threat posed to the government and people of Afghanistan, the U.S. and its coalition partners," Davis said.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/news/world...z17Tq12GcV

This is just another reason for prisoners to be interrogated in the field and then have untimely and very unfortunate accidents.

Washington has abandoned the fight. Our guys over there essentially just wasting time. We have no clear objective, we don't allow our troops to achieve the few stated objectives, and we work with incompetent and corrupt officials in Afghanistan who have only their personal interests in mind.

I thought prisoner releases happened AFTER the war was won. Our civilian leadership is nothing but a bunch of maggots.

If this is how we are going to do it, let's just get the fuk out!!!!

If they do not want stability, I an not willing to have one more NATO personnel to spill one more drop of blood.
Let them live in the stone age, and have the Seals go in every couple of years and blow up their camps and kill about 5000 of the bastards and get the fuk out.

If this is how our govt is going to let them play with our lives screw them and the young boy they rode in on.

(12-08-2010 12:46 AM)TomorrowHerd Wrote:  If this is how we are going to do it, let's just get the fuk out!!!!

If they do not want stability, I an not willing to have one more NATO personnel to spill one more drop of blood.
Let them live in the stone age, and have the Seals go in every couple of years and blow up their camps and kill about 5000 of the bastards and get the fuk out.

If this is how our govt is going to let them play with our lives screw them and the young boy they rode in on.

Absolutely agree.