4 for 1—not an equal trade. Can only imagine the hand wringing going on in mainstream media’s quarters. Having one of their own imprisoned is unthinkable. Never mind the damage the media does to our troops who are stationed in foreign lands and subject to the traitorous garbage mainstream media prints that puts our troops in harms way. And the powers that be will see that she gets the highest journalism award possible for her endurance. Never mind that she’s Iranian, hasn’t worked in publishing for some years and has been willingly living in Iran for 7 years.
I think it was basically a set-up, and perhaps the objective all along was the release of these 4. Once Bambi, who seems to be panting to be Ahamdinejad’s best friend, got into office Iran knew it was going to be easy sailing from there on.
Hey, if she was over there doing our work, she deserves it! (Though if that’s the case, she’ll probably just return to obscurity.)
“4 for 1—not an equal trade.”
It wouldn’t matter if it were 1 for 1. Negotiating with an unprincipled adversary in this fashion essentially trains them to take high profile hostages whenever they desire a concession from this clueless administration.
When Danny Pearl was taken hostage, Bush didn’t release any high value Al Qaeda operatives. Instead, when Pearl was killed, we went after and convicted Omar Sheikh. The response to this was not an escalating pattern of kidnapping American journalists. Taking a hard line produced a world that arguably was safer for American journalists going forward, however tragic it might have been for Pearl.