"I would support ways of bringing him home," he told CNN, "and if exchange was one of them I think that would be something I think we should seriously consider."
The NYT Editorial board (anonymously spewed dogma) are entitled to their opinion, but they are not entitled to a perverted interpretation.
When I was in school, "support" was a very different thing from "seriously consider".
Honestly, it's like they're not even trying to make everything jibe anymore. Just wipe their behinds like a baboon, grab some feces and sling it somewhere to see if it sticks. They really are a pretentious and ill equipped group of ideologues.
McCain said he would “consider exchange” in order to bring the soldier back. He did NOT say he would consider an exchange for the five high ranking terrorists we gave up.
McCain’s answer was political in nature and deliberately ambiguous. But it remains this author deliberately reports, without any facts, his personal beliefs of what McCain meant.