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| Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl via Investors.com |
Terrorists: The release of a soldier held for five years is welcome, but not at the price of five high-risk Taliban commanders sure to return to the battlefield. It's a deal that puts a price on American heads everywhere.
Memo to jihadists — if you take an American soldier hostage, President Obama will return five of your fellow killers to you.
That they will return to the battlefield to kill again, as other former Gitmo detainees have, is a given. But when you're committed to leaving Afghanistan and closing Gitmo, this is a twofer.
One question we have is: How many Americans lost their lives in the pursuit and capture of these jihadists? How many Afghan and American deaths were they responsible for? How many more will die as the result of their release and their likely return to the battlefield?
We welcome home the release of any American prisoner of war, but in the aftermath of the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, many of Bergdahl's peers, according to the Washington Post, consider him a deserter and not a hero.
Disappearing from a military post in a war zone without authorization commonly results in one of two criminal charges in the Army: desertion or going absent without leave, or AWOL. We should emphasize that we don't know if this is true, but it certainly warrants looking into. Did we swap five terrorists for a deserter?
Bergdahl was believed to have been held by the militant Haqqani network in the tribal area of Pakistan's northwest frontier on the Afghan border. He was picked up in eastern Afghanistan, near the Pakistani border, by a Navy SEAL team.
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