Posted on 06/09/2024 11:02:00 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Going back to Carter, the Democrats never grasp that, if you negotiate with hostage-takers, you get more hostages.
In Joe Biden’s proposed agreement to end The Israeli Military Offensive (and Defensive) actions, he puts releasing the hostages as the third stage in his preferred sequences of events. For Biden, now and before October 7, 2023, releasing the hostages has been a very low priority. Evidently, terrorist activities are rewarded, not punished.
When the world was stable (before Joe Biden), Western nations, including America, understood that negotiating with terrorists was not an option. The reason for this rule of thumb is that negotiating with terrorists about their terroristic behavior would reward this type of immoral behavior. This type of reward would lead to more terroristic behavior (it works, so why not?). It’s worth noting that there are American hostages in Gaza.
The United Nations and the United States of America have chosen not to set a high priority of rescuing the hostages. This is just another action that screams, “You are Jews, and your right to live and defend yourselves is not the same as it is for the rest of the world’s population.” (Remember the “Bring Back Our Girls” campaign?) Their actions and lack of actions speak louder than the anti-Israel / Anti-Jewish rhetoric being spewed across the West.
Image: The original Democrat hostage crisis in Tehran, 1979. Public domain.
This is not the first time the Far Left / Democrat / Progressive Agenda, which includes refusing to act against hostage takers, has led the world to instability and dysfunctionality.
During the Jimmy Carter administration, Iran seized more than 60 American hostages from the US Embassy, in addition to over a dozen other hostages. President Carter, the Democrats, and sundry other leftists established a policy of diplomacy...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
And Jimmy Carter micro-managed the rescue attempt (in fine democRAT style) and caused a catastrophe.
I thought the going rate for Israel was about 10 terrorists freed for each hostage freed.
HAMAS prefers brutality over equality.
Bobama and joe at it agin
Bo birddog was hardly worth 5 high gear towel heads according to him and here we go again, can only hope for trade equity and payback later
obviously correct
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