Silly me, I thought releasing detainees (especially high level ones) would decrease one’s set of bargaining chips.
But....what do I know. After all, we’re having so much sucess with the Taliban. [/s]
Its amazing that a bunch of illiterate, pre-Medieval tribesman can make such an ass out of a Superpower.
They've actually got a good record of exposing the incompetence of their foes:
Brezhnev
Andropov
Chernenko
Gorbachev
Playboy Clinton
Rambo Bush
And the current Clueless One in the White House
Bet the recidivism rate is akin to what we would experience if we began releasing death row inmates en masse!
This is exactly why they are being released. Most of them have no clue about 9/11 or international terrorism and think they are just fighting another set of invaders out to kill them.
The Bush government released many of them too.