{"id":9151,"date":"2015-05-02T04:23:18","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T04:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9151"},"modified":"2015-05-02T04:23:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-02T04:23:18","slug":"another-czar-might-emerge-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9151","title":{"rendered":"Another 'czar' might emerge in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It’s been some time since we’ve heard the term “czar” kicked around Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

But here it comes again, this time in the form of legislation that creates a “hostage czar” who would coordinate efforts to gain the release of Americans held hostage abroad.<\/p>\n

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U.S. Rep. John Delaney, D-Md., has proposed the Warren Weinstein Hostage Rescue Act, named in honor of the man killed early this year in a drone strike on a suspected al-Qaeda compound.<\/p>\n

Allow me this one request for the legislation: no negotiating with terrorists, please.<\/p>\n

Delaney said this: \u201cHostage rescue is incredibly complex and multiple agencies have a role in the process, which at times has complicated our ability to act efficiently.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, he wants to create a hostage czar to coordinate those efforts.<\/p>\n

It’s at best a symbolic gesture. It could prove fruitful, but only if it maintains a policy of refusing to negotiate with terror organizations to gain the release of these captive Americans.<\/p>\n

I know what you’re thinking: Hey, we “negotiated” with the Taliban to obtain the release of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl; we released five Taliban officers in exchange for Bergdahl. Isn’t that “negotiating with terrorists”? Well, I believe the Taliban is a terrorist organization, but the White House doesn’t call it such — so, technically, the U.S. government didn’t negotiate with a terrorist outfit to gain Bergdahl’s release.<\/p>\n

In hindsight, it looks like a mistake because (a) the Taliban comprises terrorists and (b) Bergdahl now is facing desertion charges.<\/p>\n

Still, the Weinstein Hostage Rescue Act should be free of language that allows us to negotiate with any recognized terrorist outfit.<\/p>\n\n

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It’s been some time since we’ve heard the term “czar” kicked around Washington, D.C. But here it comes again, this time in the form of legislation that creates a “hostage czar” who would coordinate efforts to gain the release of Americans held hostage abroad. http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/bill-would-create-%e2%80%98hostage-czar%e2%80%99-to-coordinate-efforts-to-rescue-americans\/ar-BBj1S6C U.S. Rep. John Delaney, D-Md., has proposed the Warren Weinstein … Continue reading Another 'czar' might emerge in Washington<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[222,722,1224,1368,2165,2528,4501,4568,4944,5185],"class_list":["post-9151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-al-qaeda","tag-bowe-bergdahl","tag-czar","tag-desertion","tag-hostage-czar","tag-john-delaney","tag-taliban","tag-terrorist-organizations","tag-u-s-army","tag-warren-weinstein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}