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.
>>A spectacular exception was the Peruvian commando rescue ot hostages at the Japanese Embassy
Seems to me there was a huge stink about that later - commandos being charged with murder and that kind of thing by a new left wing government.
The thought behind these stupid hash tags is the same as the idea broadcast on my local TV’s “save the children” campaign. They show a picture of a supposedly missing child and ask if you have seen him or her to call a number and report it.
The last child I saw pictured went missing in 2006. So now what are we supposed to do with that information?
These girls are gone. Some will drift back, but most will be swallowed up and lost in the mess that is lawless Africa.
I don't think it would be so bad if we just sent in Delta Force (or the SAS, using a broader "we") and killed a few dozen terrorists, period (or full stop, to be inclusive).