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“What was the trade...... 5 American lives traded for something we do not know. What was it?”

You are correct. To a point. It was likely not a trade per se, but a Gift.

In the muslim culture, which O grew up in, it is common to give Gifts as a signal/sign of one’s loyalties and intensions, much as a lover might give his intended a bouquet of flowers.

Having succeeded in giving the mullahs of Iran a Gift of the latest drone tech, O needed to give the Muslim Brotherhood a similar Gift, since his Gift to the MB of Egypt. Tunisia, Malawi, and Mauritania was disputable. Since the MB is low tech, something appropriate, sincere and indisputable needed to be found.

As you may or may not know, AQ is an offshoot of the Egyptian Salafis MB - or a military arm, if you will. So in a way, the Gift had to be given in a manner and as something AQ would recognize as O’s true intensions toward them.

Leading up to this likely pre-planned operation, O had skipped his daily intel briefings for weeks, and told the intel operators to stand down in the muslim world lest they stir up the pot and anger the locals - which is why the whole thing came about as a ‘surprise’.

O didn’t need to know what the exact Gift would be, only that he make situations which they could choose between - there was a similar, but unsuccessful attack on the US Embassy in Tunisia. In that regard, S was specifically sent without the usual security into a situation which made him a large and juicy target of opportunity.

S was, from the sound of it, a good man, full of ideals, and good intensions - but naive. Other men, of a different temperament, might have declined.

HC was likely told something was going down and to do nothing, She would have been surprised, but held her tongue, since the info could be used later in her run against O for President in 2016. Thus, she took the blame - for now.

Meanwhile, General Ham stood up and threw away his career, rather than serve at O’s pleasure - much like the mass resignations of mil brass under President BC. Ham, like the others before him, knew what was going down and refused to serve.

When the black AQ flag was hoisted over the US Embassy in Egypt and over the US compound in Libya, it was a signal to O that his Gifts were acceptable and in accordance with the will of allah. That the black flag was raised is a point of great importance much overlooked by many. Symbols and signs play a huge role in muslim culture - 9/11 isn’t just the day the US was attacked, but commemorates September 11, 1683, when “Muslims were turned away at the gates of Vienna at the Battle of Vienna. This loss resulted in the demise of Islam in the West, which Muslims have never forgotten or forgiven”

As for trade to your point, it may be thought of as O signaling that he is willing to trade as many American lives, as many US troops, as many Israeli lives needed to mollify the muslim world. Everyone who is paying attention knows that when Iran has enough working nukes, they intend to use them. They may only have five or so now, and that may not be enough or the right moment has not yet come round.

THE SECOND COMING

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.

The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? — William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

Expect the worst, but rejoice if Something intervenes and O and his cronies are deposed.