RE: Prisoner Exchange: Bergdalh for 5 Taliban Commanders
June 2, 2014 at 6:39 pm
(This post was last modified: June 2, 2014 at 6:40 pm by Heywood.)
(June 2, 2014 at 5:50 pm)Moros Synackaon Wrote: 1. Yes.
- We shouldn't leave anyone behind.
- Besides that, Congress won't try the detainees under the law, so they never were going anywhere useful to begin with.
- We will be tracking them in hopes of catching the next Al Qaeda cell
- One less family is indefinitely fractured
- Whatever stupid/unsanctioned thing the soldier did, I think he's suffered enough
Your opinion regarding the "he's suffered enough". Are you taking into consideration that US soldiers died looking for this wandering/deserting soldier? If your loved one died looking for this alleged deserter would you still think he suffered enough?
(June 2, 2014 at 5:50 pm)Moros Synackaon Wrote: 2. I don't care - Obama got one of our troops back for some go-nowhere useless detainees who will be nothing but bad news for terrorist cells. They know if they try to recruit the ex-detainees, the US intelligence network will be alerted. Maybe they will be stupid enough.
In your mind the law is nullified because in your opinion the end justified breaking it. Not everyone thinks the way you do. Would it bother you if people called for a criminal investigation?
(June 2, 2014 at 5:50 pm)Moros Synackaon Wrote: 3. I only think you're doing this to play politics so fuck you.
Fuck you too, but in all honesty, I haven't made up my mind. I do think we have an obligation to try to free prisoners even if they are deserters. I'm just not convinced it was worth trading 5 Taliban commanders for him. I don't buy your argument that releasing these prisoners will help us track down cells. I doubt we surgically implanted homing devices on them. Other prisoners that have been released from Gitmo returned to the fight. There is little reason to think these won't.
