It’s a win-win for the Taliban and a lose-lose for the US.
They get 5 soldiers to put in the field over there against US and 1 over here behind the lines.
Yeh they traded one of theirs for five of theirs.
We WOULD get the one, the deserter pacifist.
How will the cheers, joy and back slapping sound when the enemy gets the outed station chief and American soldiers are marked as a result of this swap, and allies are killed.
Stranger than fiction this tale.