BBC News: Reports " The main US political parties have clashed over the deal to swap five Guantanamo Bay detainees for a Taliban-held soldier, with Republicans warning it could put American lives at risk. "
Lets Get Real:
This blog has been thinking about this DEAL since the weekend, it did not rush to be critical of the deal, it does sound in part like Reagan's Iran deal in part, the White House has to make it clear that this was a one off, also it needs the CIA to keep an eye on the released Taliban. The question that has been asked does this deal put a price on the heads of US soldiers still left in Afghanistan, the answer is YES, what if the Taliban take other US Soldiers as hostages, and demand the release of KSM. This might open a box that comes back to bite the Oval in the backside, on the other hand if things go well in Afghanistan, that is a big hope the US after 2014 can leave with a majority of their troops and think the job has been well done and no one has bee left behind. Hope and Afghanistan do not go together that often in history.
