Posted by
Always To The Right on Wednesday, June 24, 2009 2:41:41 PM
The cardinal rule, and until now the official policy of the US, is
clear: We do not negotiate with terrorists. To do so only encourages
more terrorism and makes civilians more vulnerable, as their value
increases as hostages. It also gives more credibility to the
terrorists and places them at the level of nation-states in diplomacy,
which allows them to attract recruits.
And, as we see here, it also doesn’t work. It doesn’t moderate
terrorists, and it doesn’t satisfy their demands. As the Israelis keep
discovering, it usually results in the exchange of live terrorists for
the corpses of the innocent. It ensures more corpses down the road as
well.