Marco Rubio Continues to Pound Obama for Taliban Prisoner Deal

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., continued to criticize the Obama administration for agreeing to a deal releasing a captured American soldier for five Taliban leaders.

The singular part of it that I want to focus on is the fact that the president has gone ahead and released five extremely dangerous Taliban commanders, Rubio said on Monday during an interview on WOKV in Jacksonville. I mean, perhaps the five most dangerous Taliban commanders in Guantanamo are now free, and are already planning to be at war against the Unites States fairly soon as they have said upon arrival, when they arrived in Qatar.

All five are people that we fully anticipate would return to the battlefield, Rubio added. I mean, these guys arent going back home to become stockbrokers, or journalists. I mean, these are hardened Taliban fighters, and this return has been hailed as a victory for the Taliban has really given them credibility in the region and on the ground as a legitimate government, legitimate military force. And it sets a very dangerous precedent for the future.