The Biden
administration blew another one.
Russia got Biden to hand over
Viktor "the Merchant of Death" Bout for
WNBA star Brittney Griner. One-for-one. This was the worst trade since the New York
Yankees obtained Babe Ruth, the greatest baseball
player of all time, from the Boston Red Sox for $100,000 dollars and a $300,000
loan to finance the musical comedy No, No, Nanette. No, no kidding. (Lead
by Ruth, the Yankees would go on to win an incredible seven pennants in
the next 15 seasons.)
This forced
White House adviser John Kirby to attempt to deflect criticism of the deal. Especially
since it left Paul Whelan, an ex-marine, to rot in a Russian penal colony over a bogus espionage conviction.
Speaking on "Fox News Sunday," Kirby
remarked: "Mr. Bout wasn't serving a life sentence. He was going to get out in 2029. So, at some point in the not-too-distant future,
he would have been a free man.”
Kirby added of Bout, "Nobody over at the White
House is doing backflips of joy that he is walking the streets. But this was
the deal we could get. Now was the moment we could get it."
Maybe not. Russian media
mocked the Biden administration mercilessly for the deal, amused that it was
okay with leaving Whelan locked up if it meant securing the release of Griner,
a “lesbian of color.”
Kirby’s preposterously lame excuse that The Merchant
of Death was going to be released “at some point in the not-too-distant future,”
boggles the mind and beggars description. The arms dealer/weapons smuggler was
going to get out in only about seven years, anyway?!
Why not let all convicted criminals out of prison right
now if they haven’t been given the death penalty or life in prison? I mean,
they’re going to get out at some point, anyway, right?
For that matter, why make a hockey player serve say,
two, five, or 10 minutes in the penalty box if he’s going to eventually get out
anyway? What’s the point?
And, you know, the coronavirus was probably going to
escape the Wuhan lab at some point in the future anyway, so……
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