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Originally Posted by RainMaker
You don't have to guess what the reaction would be if Trump did this because he did. He traded 3 commanders in the Haqqani terrorist organization for an American professor. He traded a man who laundered a billion dollars for Hezbollah. I'd say you can look up the immense backlash for those decisions, but you won't find much because there wasn't.
And lets not forget that Trump signed an agreement to release 5000 Taliban prisoners, including 400 who had committed violent acts including the murder of Americans. This was in return for a promise that the Taliban wouldn't allow Al-Qaeda back into the country, which they almost immediately reneged on.
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If this were Tom Brady they were freeing, do you think there would be the same outrage?
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Originally Posted by RainMaker
The additional spending has little to nothing to do with fighting China or Russia. It's to enrich defense contractors.
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Exactly. We could reduce spending by a large percentage if we cleaned up the waste in the system. Never going to happened.