Biden's Hostage Crisis

Biden's Hostage Crisis

I warned yesterday that we could be facing the worst hostage crisis in our nation's history. I thought about it some more, and it occurred to me that we are already facing the worst hostage crisis in our nation's history. 

Thousands of Americans are trapped in what is now enemy territory. Many are hundreds of miles from Kabul. And our own leaders are already talking about these trapped Americans as if they are hostages.

The Taliban controls who gets to the airport and who doesn't. Before this is over, we may learn that the Biden Administration paid the Taliban a ransom for every American who was allowed through their checkpoints. 

Perhaps Biden is flying pallets of cash to Afghanistan the way he and Obama did with Iran. There are reports that he wants to give them $3.6 billion in reconstruction aid. 

Some people didn't like Trump's tweets. The perpetual war wing of the GOP didn't like his America First policies. But it's worth remembering that the Trump Administration regularly freed American prisoners without paying ransoms. 

Even Trump's critics know that if he were president today, it would be the Taliban trying to meet Trump's demands rather than the current American leadership groveling before seventh century sheep herders.