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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jones" data-source="post: 1340748" data-attributes="member: 4805"><p>The danger these guys actually pose seems a bit overhyped to me. They were all captured pretty early on and they've been locked up for 10+ years, whatever position they held with the taliban has been long since filled. Their release has some personal and maybe some propaganda value to taliban but not much more than that. If they insist on getting back into action so what? They're just 5 more guys at this point, it's not like they're super terrorist commandos who are going to change the course of the war. And killing them in a drone strike now that we've got Bergdahl back would be completely counterproductive, all it would serve to do is demonstrate that we negotiate in bad faith and can't be trusted to uphold our end of the deal and the next time they manage to catch someone they'll just cut his head off on the internet.</p></blockquote><p></p>