So much for the us not paying money for hostages. And look who did the negotiating, Kerry, ugh.....
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United States pays ransom for hostages.
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United States pays ransom for hostages.
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Re: United States pays ransom for hostages.
The proper response should be to ransom hostages if it is not possible to rescue them, then hunt down and destroy the kidnappers afterward.
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That surely won't create any incentives that bad guys didn't have before.
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Danegeld.
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Re: United States pays ransom for hostages.
Wasn't this already known shortly after the incident? Something about money we owed them for decades. Why is this getting picked up again now?
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This is news? What do you think all those idiots wh wind up in foreign shitholes, charged with serious crimes, both real and imagined, then, we send over somebody to resolve the situation, and they get promptly released? When the tinpot dictator then gets an "aid package" a couple months later on the at? Best Korea practically invented this shakedown, and have pulled it a coupla times..
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We can call it not ransom all we want, and maybe technically the money itself wasn't ransom, but getting it released in exchange for the hostages that should have been item one at the nuclear deal negotiations last year was. It doesn't matter how WE view it if they regard it as a bribe, they are as Weetabix said, incentivized.
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Re: United States pays ransom for hostages.
An attempt to appear better than the Carter presidency, re: hostages held by Iran at the end of one's term? Just a thought.
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