ThinkProgress flags up a Herman Cain – Wolf Blitzer exchange from CNN’s Situation Room:
BLITZER: Could you imagine if you were president…and there were one American soldier who had been held for years and the demand was al Qaeda or some other terrorist group, “You got to free everyone at Guantanamo Bay” – several hundred prisoners at Guantanamo. Could you see yourself as president authorizing that kind of transfer?
CAIN: I could see myself authorizing that kind of transfer but what I would do is I would make sure that I got all of the information. I got all of the input, considered all of the options. And then, the president has to be the president and make a judgement call. I can make that call if I had to.
The context was whether Cain approved of Israel’s recent exchange of numerous Palestinian prisoners for the lone Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit.
