Did Yemen look the other way as terrorists escaped its jail as a protest against aid cutoff? How should prisoners be treated?  Certainly, this sort of gamesmanship is practiced throughout the region. American aid in return for help on the terror front. When aid was cut back, terrorists "escaped." A linkage and a message? As Jeff Jacoby of the Boston Globe wrote last week, there is a "fallacy of life in prison" since so many prisoners actually serve a fraction of the time they are sentenced. Such prisoners often have their sentences reduced or they are pardoned. Israel has released prisoners as a way to help bolster Mahmoud Abbas. These prisoners have gone back to supporting terror operations — despite promises that they would not do so.  Abbas himself has released prisoners that he had promised to detain. And when international observers have been put in place on the West Bank to monitor imprisoned terrorists, they have been run off because of attacks and threats....(Read Full Post)