here’s another point of view...blah blah blah info blah
summary: to make more deals in the future
“Why the U.S. Allowed a Convoy of ISIS Fighters to Go Free”
nytimes 9/15/2017
deals with the devil always work out well in the end, eh?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/15/world/middleeast/syria-isis-convoy-us.html
McCain told Trump to let McCain’s goat humpers go free?