The Girl Left Behind

[Bengalzona]

(08-26-2016, 09:41 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Given the wording in the OP slams POTUS, but that wasn't really the point. I think the story goes much deeper and I am looking forward to watching it. The family alleges they were told that they could/would be tried for criminal activity is they negotiated her release. I have zero idea what I would do if the government told me I could not stop my child from being executed.

And all of this masks the true villain in this scenario.

Yeah. It's been our national stand for about 30 years or more now, I think: no negotiations with terrorists (government or private). The government take is that it weakens us (i.e. if terrorists know Americans will pay for hostages, they will start nabbing U.S. citizens all over the world). But the other side of the coin is that once they do end up grabbing U.S. citizens like mixed in with a group of Europeans, they have no compunctions about killing the Americans to serve as an example to other countries to pay up.

Not sure how I feel about this. But there is another facet to our current policy that I do like. If someone grabs our people and kills them or mistreats them, we let it be known that we WILL get them eventually. Our track record is incomplete on that, but we never forget.