[JasonC]

No, it is very easy when you don't really give a rat's rear about the hostages to storm in and get the whole thing off the front page ASAP. It is the right way to deal with hostage takers. But the reason they do it the right way is not great moral courage and principle. Human life is simply so cheap, it isn't even hard.

[Delta 21]

...allbeit for the wrong reasons and motivations.

Youre probly right. I do believe ours is the more nobel cause.