According to breaking news, ISIL increased its demand for the release of Kayla Mueller after the administration bargained for the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in Afghanistan. Bergdahl is now charged by Army authorities with desertion in relation to his captivity and is set to stand trial in a court martial for the same.
This doesn't mean that the young woman, who was in Syria by her own volition, would have been freed by ISIL but for the administration securing the release of Berghdahl in the fashion which it did. But it is something people should stop and consider. Mueller was a devout Christian (something that the news media has largely ignored regarding her, and there is evidence that she was handed out as a war prize bride to an ISIL fighter by that entity, somewhat applying a practice that Mohammed sanctioned for his fighters in allowing them to take captive women for their own, in consolation for their separation from their spouses. ISIL has been dolling out Christian and Yazidi women to its combatants as "brides". That fate was most likely grim for Mueller but it may also have been keeping her alive. Of course, that status may also have kept her there.
At any rate, a person should pause to consider, in light of this, what unfortunate lesson was conveyed by the US bargaining with prisoners for the release of a man we will now try as a deserter.
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