Once again, the United States trades a major convicted criminal for some hapless American dumb enough to be caught inside Russia with anything that passes for contraband. Why our government, which says it has a policy of never negotiating with terrorists, allows itself to get roped into giving up career criminals for someone arrested abroad by a dictatorship for the express purpose of swapping him for someone they want back, I'll never know.
The next time someone considers travel to Iran, Russia, Venezuela or China, perhaps they might consider that they might very well become a hostage to a tyrant's whims or needs. Let's stop losing our convicted and imprisoned bad actors, going free because of a mistake of one of our own, who travels to a high-risk jurisdiction, and thinks it's O.K. to do so.
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