Well if you use the phrase properly it definitely says that - equivalent retaliation.
Equivalent retaliation in this sense would be not extraditing criminals where you feel we have either apprehended them, or are going to punish them, in a manner which you do not deem appropriate in the universal sense (for example the death penalty).
Basically what you're advocating is throwing a tantrum because other countries are standing up for their legal and moral principles.
Not at all. I'm merely advocating that we find reasons to not extradite their wanted, just as they find reasons to not extradite ours. You cannot say Canada has legal and moral principles but America is not entitled to them, so I'm saying that our legal and moral principles be tuned to provide the same results as theirs. Surely apprehending accused terrorists and mass murderers is morally more important than, say, tax cheats or bank robbers. And it has the added benefit that tax cheats and bank robbers tend to bring in more money than do terrorists and mass murderers.
This is mostly stupid, particularly the bolded.
should we continue to stoop down to schoolyard antics? I thought we had had enough of that over the previous administration?
it is that kind of juvenile behavior that we outsourced in international affairs that has lead directly to this current foreign opinion of the US.
We are above that. Well, we should be.
Again, you cannot say that our wanting an accused terrorist is "schoolyard antics" but Canada's failure to produce him is principled opposition. Not after 9/11. Canada is concerned that an accused might be found guilty and put to death. We're concerned that terrorists may well consider Canada a safe haven; kill a bunch of people and Canada will refuse to extradite.
I do agree that paying a foreign agency to apprehend someone is a very bad policy, and that dealing with the ISI (or really, with Pakistan as a country) is very bad policy as well. Hopefully we can accelerate our departure from Afghanistan and have absolutely nothing further to do with Pakistan.