Time Magazine: Obama Didn't
'Negotiate with Terrorists' But Other Presidents Did
by Warner Todd Huston 3 Jun 2014
Time magazine is rushing to President Obama's side to
defend him against the charge that he negotiated with terrorists to secure the
release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.
The magazine tells readers that the maxim
that America
doesn't negotiate with terrorists is more of a general ideal than a hard-bound
policy and cites several other presidents who, the magazine claims, did
negotiate with terrorists.
Time notes that during the 1979 Iranian
hostage crisis Jimmy Carter negotiated with the Iranian Mullahs who took over
Iran after deposing the Shah. Reagan also negotiated with the Mullahs, Time
notes.
Of course, in both cases the Mullahs were then
the official government in Iran,
whereas today the Taliban are not an officially recognized government in Afghanistan.
The magazine also reminds readers that
Bill Clinton met with Irish Republican Army
leader Gerry Adams in the mid-1990s. Still, in
that case Clinton
was not "negotiating" for the release of American soldiers. Clinton's was a political
move, not a traditional "negotiation."
Oddly, Time treats the Taliban as a single
organization, calling it a "savage and deplorable organization" that
the magazine yet notes "is not on the State Department’s
official list of terrorist organizations."
In truth, though, the Taliban is not
really a "the," but a "they." The Taliban is a catch-all
phrase used to describe a loosely knit movement of many different groups, some
of which don't work well with the others. Often these groups are based on local
tribes as opposed to members of a centrally controlled group.
There are essentially two separate
"Talibans," one in Pakistan
and one in Afghanistan.
Regardless, Time magazine insists that
whatever was going on, "the real debate isn’t whether Obama negotiated
with terrorists – he didn’t."
Time magazine
Kate Betts
is a contributing editor for Time magazine,
and a friend of Melissa Soros.
Note: Melissa
Soros is a friend of Kate Betts, and
married to Robert Soros.
Robert Soros
is married to Melissa Soros, and George Soros’s son.
George Soros
is Robert Soros & Andrea Soros’s
father, a board member for the International Crisis Group,
and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open
Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the New America
Foundation, the Brookings Institution
(think tank), the International Rescue
Committee, the Aspen Institute
(think tank), ProPublica, the
Urban Institute (think tank), and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
Andrea Soros
is George Soros’s daughter, and a director
at the Acumen Fund.
Fareed
Zakaria is an advisory council member for the Acumen Fund,
a director at the New America Foundation,
and the editor-at-large for Time magazine.
Strobe
Talbott was an editor for Time magazine,
and is the president of the Brookings Institution
(think tank).
Cass R.
Sunstein is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), and married to Samantha Power.
Samantha
Power is married to Cass R. Sunstein,
the United Nations U.S. ambassador, was a board
member for the International Crisis Group, a
director at the International Rescue Committee,
and a foreign policy columnist for Time magazine.
Timothy
F. Geithner was an overseer at the International Rescue
Committee, the treasury secretary for the Barack Obama
administration, and a researcher for Kissinger
Associates, Inc.
Joshua
Cooper Ramo is the vice chairman for Kissinger Associates, Inc.,
and was an assistant managing editor for Time magazine.
Henry A. Kissinger
is an overseer at the International Rescue
Committee, the founder of Kissinger Associates, Inc.,
a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank), was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
Walter
Isaacson is the president & CEO for the Aspen Institute (think tank), and was a managing editor for Time magazine.
Henry
Louis Gates Jr. is a trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank), and a director at ProPublica.
Priscilla
Painton is an advisory board member for ProPublica,
and was a deputy managing editor for Time magazine.
Susan E.
Tifft was the public affairs director for the Urban
Institute (think tank), and a writer & editor for Time magazine.
Michael
Elliott was a deputy managing editor for Time
magazine, and is the president & CEO for the ONE Campaign.
Michelle
Obama is an advocate for the ONE Campaign.
ONE
Campaign is a partner with the International Rescue
Committee.
Samantha
Power was a director at the International Rescue
Committee, and a foreign policy columnist for Time
magazine.
Whittaker
Chambers was an editor for Time magazine,
and accused Alger Hiss of espionage.
Alger Hiss
was accused of espionage by Whittaker Chambers,
and the president of the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews
is the president of the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace (think tank), a director at the American
Friends of Bilderberg (think
tank), was an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview
with Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for
population control by involving the United States in war)
Andrew
Carnegie was the founder of the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), the founder of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the endowed predecessor
schools for the Carnegie Mellon University, and the
founder of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh.
Norman
Pearlstine is a trustee at the Carnegie Corporation of
New York, and was the editor-in-chief for Time
magazine.
Strobe
Talbott was an editor for Time magazine,
and is the president of the Brookings Institution
(think tank).
Teresa
Heinz Kerry is an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), a life trustee at the Carnegie Mellon University,
a trustee at the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh,
and married to John F. Kerry.
John F. Kerry
is married to Teresa Heinz Kerry, the secretary
at the U.S. Department of State for the Barack Obama administration, and a governor for the Broadcasting Board of Governors.
Susan McCue
is a governor for the Broadcasting Board of
Governors, and was the founding president & CEO for the ONE Campaign.
Michelle
Obama is an advocate for the ONE Campaign.
Michael
Elliott is the president & CEO for the ONE Campaign,
and was a deputy managing editor for Time magazine.
ONE
Campaign is a partner with the International Rescue
Committee.
Jean
Kennedy Smith is an overseer at the International Rescue
Committee, and was a U.S.
ambassador for Ireland.
Sinn Fein
is a political party for Ireland, and a political
arm for the Irish Republican Army.
Gerry Adams
is the president of Sinn Fein.
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