Obama administration ´to offer Taliban 5 Gitmo prisoners in exchange for last Afghanistan POW

Daily Mail ^ | 2/18/14 | James Nye

[zeestephen]

I agree.

This guy's disappearance and capture are really strange.

My first thought was the guy had psychological issues or extreme political issues.

An earlier comment nails the solution, though.

Since we will eventually release all the bad guys at Gitmo anyway, why not trade now for the missing American?

[massgopguy]

Exactly, the PA would trade prisoners with the Israelis but kill them just before doing so.

[Blood of Tyrants]

It sucks, but should we just leave him behind?

[SECURE AMERICA]

Here is a radical idea. Tell these pieces of crap to return the soldier or we will kill them. We will hunt them, track them and then kill them. We will bomb the shit out of every Taliban stronghold we can locate. Anywhere. I don't mean sneaking in a laying a couple of charges. I mean more friggin cruise missiles at one time they can count on their fingers and toes.

[originalbuckeye]

You DO remember that uber-metrosexual Obama is in charge, don’t you? His loony Leftist base would revolt if he did or even said that! They ARE revolting, just not against him yet.

[USNBandit]

He may be an idiot, but he is still our idiot.

[PeteB570]

Which is basically what I said.

He is no hero....

[Rappini]

I think it’s a good Idea, track the five ragheads when they leave wait till they get to Afstan and then call out the UAV’s
and tell that soldier not to wonder off again.

[Nifster]

Ronald Reagan offered no exchanges and all of the Americans were returned

[Graewoulf]

BUMP!

[Starboard]

Maybe we should be devoting more resources to locate and extract him. Its just a matter of priorities.

If you look at other “hostage” situations elsewhere (e.g., Iran, North Korea) as a guide, its evident that Obama isn’t pushing for releases (even though he has leverage). He doesn’t really want to exercise any form of American power over our adversaries.

I suspect the administration hasn’t, unitl recently, been sufficiently motiviated to deal with this man’s plight. But since we are withdrawing now, decisions are being pushed by political considerations.

Obama wants to clear out Gitmo before he leaves office so he’s now motivated to “horse trade”. I think its the wrong approach.

[cpdiii]

Good trade, we can kill the vermin later with drones.