re: #58 wrenchwench

I expect isolationists to be lukewarm at best about doing anything to retrieve a US soldier. That’s one reason isolationists suck and should not be elected to national office.

Isolationists are taking over the Republican Party.

Not TailGunner Cruz. He’s all in, as long as someone else takes all the risk.

CRUZ: I do not think the way to deal with terrorists is through releasing other violent terrorists. I mean…

STEPHANOPOULOS: But what if that’s the only way to get Bergdahl home?

CRUZ: It’s not the only way. We can go in and use military force, as needed, to rescue our fallen compatriots. But, look, Sergeant Bergdahl was fighting to capture these terrorists. Can you imagine what he would say to his fallen comrades who lost their lives to stop these people who were responsible, either directly or indirectly, for threatening or taking U.S. civilian lives. I mean, that’s why we sent our soldiers there. And the idea that we’re now making trades, what does that do for every single soldier stationed abroad? It says the reason why the U.S. has had the policy for decades of not negotiating with terrorists is because once you start doing it, every other terrorist has an incentive to capture more soldiers.

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