GOP blasting Biden for Iranian deal

I can’t say I wouldn’t for a family member, but it still doesn’t make it right.

 

There’s a lot of things I would for my family. Basically anything. I’m not looking to set a precedent or solidify a past wrong one. Biden sits in a different seat than I do.

 

Go easy on the old guy. The only important thing is that we keep on hating Russia!

 

If the released Americans are Republicans, they should condemn such a deal and refuse to come home.

 

He made the easy decision. Let’s not make him out to be a warrior. The easy thing to do is pay the money. I’m not claiming I would have done it differently, but it was the easy way out. Don’t try to claim it was the courageous way.

 

So paying money to free prisoners is the hard decision, but telling their families we don’t negotiate with terrorist states, because it’s just feeding the bears, so they’re gonna sit in prison is the easy way out?
I don’t see it, but again, I’d have done the same thing.

 

The long-range answer to this issue is for Americans to stay the hell out of countries like Iran and Russia. Although I would love so much to go there!

 

This is correct.

 

We weren’t “paying money” as it was their money in the first place.

 

Pretty sure the current GOP would blast Biden if he didn't take the deal, so the GOPs thoughts on the matter mean little.

I'm torn on the issue, but overall am glad the deal was struck. I do think we we should increase efforts to keep citizens from visiting these terrorist states

 

It was held money. We released it. End of day it was their “found money”
There’s a pile of held money.

 

Next weeks headlines:

UK freezes $7b of cash from Iran

these are coordinate efforts that we have no idea what is really going on.

 

But it was theirs, not ours. We can disagree with the decision but truth does still matter.

 

This is your stance? I don’t think there’s anyone on this board that doesn’t know it was sanctioned cash. I’m sorry if I didn’t directly note that.

 

Dynamic inconsistency - Wikipedia.

• In a game theory context, an announced government policy of never negotiating with terrorists over the release of hostages constitutes a time inconsistency example, since in each particular hostage situation the authorities face the dilemma of breaking the rule and trying to save the hostages. Assuming the government acted consistently in not ever breaking the rule, it would make it irrational for a terrorist group to take hostages. (Of course, in the real world terrorists might not act rationally.)

 

So Biden got beat at political theatre once again. It was an equal swap, 5 for 5, with Iran getting $6B in unfrozen funds. It's not an equal swap by any means and Biden on top of that said it is only supposed to be used for food and medicine. That's like giving Josh Heupal a gift card to Denny's and saying all he can use it for is salad with no dressing and no toppings. Yeah right, it's all-you-can-eat buffet baby!!

So by negotiating this farce, it sets up the next situation where maybe they kidnap 100 people to release 105B in funds. This won't stop and Iran really wants Biden to win re-election now that they know they can play ball with him and his administration.