An Absolute Wrong

If you pay ransom, does that not encourage future abductions? If you give money to the world's largest sponsor of terror, will that not inevitably lead to more terrorism? If you exchange five spies for five innocent dual citizens being held hostage, will the hostage takers not simply grab more innocents so that they have something to exchange to be paid-off again? The United States should not have succumb to Iranian blackmail, because by doing so, it assures the Mad Mullahs of Iran will fund more chaos, grab more Americans, and be better positioned to start World War III.