Foreign policy outlook for the near future

Will Hillary Clinton go down with Obama’s foreign policy ship?  "Whatever foreign policy credibility President Obama had left has crumbled in the wake of the backlash over the release of five Taliban terrorists, the decision by the Palestinian Authority and Hamas to form a unity government and the newly candid criticism over his disastrous non-policy in Syria.

"The president’s approval ratings on foreign policy are at all-time lows according to CNN/ORC (40 percent) and The Post/ABC News (41 percent) polls." ...

Gitmo Fail   "Obama promised to close Guantánamo. Why is he releasing dangerous detainees and ignoring the rest?"

 

Why Are We Releasing Terrorists Who Kill Girls Because They Go To School?   "Democrats have been promoting the idea that they stand firmly against a “War on Women.” So how come President Obama just released some of that war’s worst aggressors?"

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"But it seems some people have forgotten the long catalog of the Taliban’s crimes. Politico‘s Blake Hounshell was generally regarded as winning the stiff competition for the stupidest tweet defending the administration’s prisoner swap, when he asked:

 

Blake Hounshell        ✔ @blakehounshell Follow

What's the argument that these five Taliban guys are so dangerous? Are they ninjas? Do they have superpowers? http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/02/how-obama-convinced-his-spies-to-support-the-taliban-prisoner-release.html …

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"The best commentary on the moral status of the Taliban is from a Pakistani girl who escaped from her psychopathic father and brother, who were in the business of training suicide bombers. She told an interviewer: “The Taliban slaughter other people’s children. They turn women into widows. They should be made to suffer, too. I want these Taliban to be burned alive.”

"So no, these guys are not just ordinary, rank-and-file POWs. They’re the worst of the worst, and the only argument against keeping them at Guantanamo is that it’s too good for them." ...