Here come the concessions!

Today in an interview broadcast on NBC, Iranian President Ahmadinejad suggested that the release of three American Hikers held prisoner in Iran for over a month now could coincide with the release of five Iranian diplomats held prisoner in Iraq for more than two years. He stated that the three Americans were possible spies and deserved to be punished, but if the US released the five Iranian "diplomats" then the Americans would probably be released in turn.
The three Americans were arrested late July after accidently crossing into Iran from Iraq while on a hiking trip. Now, if the Iranian President honestly believed that these three Americans were possibly spies, would he be willing to trade them for Iranian prisoners, I think not. Atleast not before he got the chance to embarras the US by parading the captured spies all over Iran. No, this is terrorism, plain and simple; perpetrated against a country showing weakness in the face of tyranny and extremism. During the Reagan years, Iran or anybody else would have never pulled a stunt like this. Infact, the 1979 US Embassy hostages in Iran were released the day Reagan took office.
And its only going to get worse. Today the US officially cancelled plans to install missile defense systems in Poland and Czekoslovakia. That display of cowardess will undoubtedly invite another Georgian invasion type incident with Russia (another example of the US doing nothing to stop its enemies). Whats next? If Russia came across the seas and simply demanded the keys to the country, you think we'd put up a fight? I'm not so sure.