On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 01:30:32PM -0500, Ed Kelly wrote:
> Lee and List,
>
> I believe the best philosophy is to view all hostages as dead and act to
> clear the seas of the scourge that is a growing threat.
Agreed, completely.
> Last fall some Brits paid a million pounds to free a few British
> subjects who had been held more than a year. It only encouraged
> the folks who are pirates and thugs.
Yep.
> There is support for marines doing such an operation if you
> listen to the words in the Marine Corps hymn "from the
> shores of Tripoli". As was the attitude back in our countries
> infancy, Millions for Defense, not one cent for tribute!
And that, exercised without any flexibility and coupled with utterly
ruthless response over a period of time, would save American lives. The
current policy of trying to provide _individual_ safety is very reason
that those lives are in danger in the first place.
It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
For fear they should succumb and go astray,
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say:
"We never pay any one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost,
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that plays it is lost!"
-- Danegeld, by Rudyard Kipling
Ben
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