Britney Griner released 12-08-2022

It is a bit odd that we, as a rule, don't negotiate with terrorists. And yet, we just did, and basically did it contrary to all the overriding policy reasons for why we shouldn't, which is that it strengthens their resolve to keep doing this and it puts someone dangerous back into the world. I just don't understand why we violated our policy in this one instance for this one person (well, I kind of understand, and I'm not thrilled about it).