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Real Western leaders would work with the Nigerian government to take back the girls. Obama sends in the actors with their signs, while little girls are brutalized, raped, and worst of all, forced to convert to satanic Islam.
Mark Steyn has been one of the few conservative writers truly worth reading of late. Maybe it’s because of his initial history of being an “outsider” looking at America from afar, coupled with being so steeped and well-versed in America’s past cultural history, but he really seems to be extremely perceptive in recognizing and sounding the alarm-bells over the astonishing decline and degredation America is going through.
The calls to rescue the girls all seem to assume they’re conveniently being held somewhere together, guarded by a few “militants.”
In actual fact, they are probably dispersed across a good chunk of Nigeria and neighboring countries by now. The girl hostages aren’t labeled, so you won’t know who they are, even if you could find them, which you can’t.
If we could send Delta Force in, kill a few dozen terrorists and rescue the girls, I’m good. If we knew where they all were, which we don’t, a rescue would have to involve simultaneously launched raids, possibly dozens of them.
Hostage rescue training scenarios generally end with one or more hostages dead. In the profession, a common saying is, “It sucks to be a hostage.”
A spectacular exception was the Peruvian commando rescue ot hostages at the Japanese Embassy. They killed all the terrorists and only one hostage died, and he had a severe pre-existing heart condition.
Wow, I didn’t realize that Nigerians were part of the British commonwealth.
Thanks, Styne can really make us laugh at society’s present insanity.