Dealing with Kidnappers
I’m also wondering if these types of attacks on soft targets could be controlled by some type of retaliation along the lines of the following.
1. Terrorists announce capture of hostage. Threaten to kill unless George Bush dances the macarena naked around Michael Moore.
2. Iraqi/Saudi authorities announce handover of terror suspects to US for “interrogation” at Gitmo or Abu Grahb. Or better yet, the conviction and sentencing of one of them to death.
3. When they kill the hostage, the terrorist is either executed or sent to the “guy pile” at Abu Grahb.
Either way, we have turned kidnapping around. Instead of meeting their demands, the kidnappers are forced to meet ours. This also provides incentive for the terrorists to sing like canaries because contrary to their reputation, they are pussies adept at convincing others of the attractive opportunities provided by martyrdom.
Would Bush do this? Given what has happened already I’m not so sure he wouldn’t. In the end, a terrorist should be given the opposite of what he demands. If he wants X freed, then X should be executed or suffer worse than he is suffering now. If he wants Country X to pull out troops, Country X should double the contingent.
This is a hard business, but War is like that.
