RE: Prisoner Exchange: Bergdalh for 5 Taliban Commanders
June 2, 2014 at 6:55 pm
(This post was last modified: June 2, 2014 at 6:56 pm by Autumnlicious.)
(June 2, 2014 at 6:39 pm)Heywood Wrote: 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?
Did he kill them? Or did the Taliban kill them?
My money's on the latter.
Quit looking for a Judas goat, pencil dick.
(June 2, 2014 at 6:39 pm)Heywood Wrote: 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?
Blah blah. We both know you're not here to discuss.
(June 2, 2014 at 6:39 pm)Heywood Wrote: Fuck you too, but in all honesty, I haven't made up my mind.
Yes, you have:
(June 2, 2014 at 6:39 pm)Heywood Wrote: 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?
Seems mighty clear you've already considered him worthless.
(June 2, 2014 at 6:39 pm)Heywood Wrote: 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.
Let's enumerate the circumstances:
1) The Taliban commanders do nothing (stick to the agreement)
2) The Taliban commanders go back to work (violate the agreement)
1 is just the same as leaving them in Guantanamo (which should have been closed long time ago), 2 is what our intelligence apparatus would like to happen.
(June 2, 2014 at 6:39 pm)Heywood Wrote: I don't buy your argument that releasing these prisoners will help us track down cells.
Guess we didn't track Bin Laden down through his couriers then?
(June 2, 2014 at 6:39 pm)Heywood Wrote: I doubt we surgically implanted homing devices on them.
I doubt the intelligence agencies are as simple minded as you are.
(June 2, 2014 at 6:39 pm)Heywood Wrote: Other prisoners that have been released from Gitmo returned to the fight. There is little reason to think these won't.
Then they will be terminated and that is the end of that.
We got back one more U.S. soldier that we'd normally never get a chance at.
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