{"id":326631,"date":"2010-02-16T11:58:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T16:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=76665"},"modified":"2010-02-16T11:58:25","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T16:58:25","slug":"the-baradar-capture-timeline-and-the-gop-attack-on-obama%e2%80%99s-security-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/326631","title":{"rendered":"The Baradar Capture Timeline and the GOP Attack on Obama\u2019s Security Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the AP, <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/76639\/5-major-results-of-top-taliban-commanders-capture\">Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban&#8217;s deputy commander and military leader<\/a>, was captured in Pakistan ten days ago, which would be on or about February 6. Since then, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/csnc\/blogs\/tapped_archive?month=02&amp;year=2010&amp;base_name=wrong_on_the_internet\">as Adam Serwer reminds us<\/a>, a former Bush speechwriter, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2010\/02\/08\/dead_terrorists_tell_no_tales\">Marc Thiessen, chided President Obama for not capturing enough terrorists<\/a>. (Soon afterward, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/02\/12\/AR2010021202278.html?hpid=opinionsbox1\">he got a column in The Washington Post<\/a>.) Dick Cheney, quite naturally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicsdaily.com\/2010\/02\/14\/former-vice-president-dick-cheney-on-abcs-this-week\/\">told ABC News<\/a> that the Obama administration was &#8220;slow&#8221; to reach &#8220;that recognition that we are at war, not dealing with criminal acts.&#8221; Add to that additional politicized criticism from <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/76302\/white-house-practically-chokes-kit-bond-over-terrorism\">Sen. Kit Bond<\/a> (R-Mo.), <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/76296\/more-gop-ignorance-about-national-security\">Newt Gingrich<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/corner.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=YzM0NDVjZjkzMGU0MTYxNGNlZjEwMDA3ZmE0YWIxYzk=\">even former Bush spokeswoman Dana Perino<\/a>.<span id=\"more-76665\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/75636\/gop-senate-leader-pledges-to-block-funding-for-911-trials\">beat the buzzer by a few days<\/a>, but the entirety of the GOP attack has been to establish in the media bloodstream the narrative that Obama doesn&#8217;t know what he&#8217;s doing on counterterrorism. All of this happened while the Obama administration and its Pakistani partners had unquestionably the most important Taliban prisoner in the eight-year Afghanistan war in their custody. Simultaneously, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the would-be bomber of Northwest Airlines Flight 253, <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/75589\/this-threat-warning-brought-to-you-by-the-u-s-law-enforcement-community\">cooperated with interrogators after his Mirandization and humane treatment<\/a>. And add to the mix this weekend&#8217;s new Afghanistan offensive in Marja. Is there any aspect of the conservative critique of Obama on national security that bears any resemblance to reality at all?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the AP, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban&#8217;s deputy commander and military leader, was captured in Pakistan ten days ago, which would be on or about February 6. Since then, as Adam Serwer reminds us, a former Bush speechwriter, Marc Thiessen, chided President Obama for not capturing enough terrorists. (Soon afterward, he got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}