Cripes. Start executing al Qaeda prisoners wherever they are held. Ten for every hostage that is taken, starting with whomever they want released first. Videotape it. Show it on every news channel around the world.
Increase Coalition presence by 10% every time a hostage is taken.
Obviously an eye for an eye isn't working. So let's make it 10 bodies for an eye.
I agree, and thus my tagline........
No. Extract information from the terrorists. Use medicine without malice. Find them, extract more, and "bring justice to them" when they are of no further INTEL use. Run silent. Run deep.
Increase Coalition presence by 10% every time a hostage is taken.
No. Use the proper forces for the mission. Do not arbitrarily increase the number of targets. This is not the American Civil War.
President Bush warned us just after September 11th what this war would be like. There will be more casualties, military and civilian. Pray for our heroes and their families.