Its to late to reconsider now. They already flinched.
If they had just stayed and this guy had been beheaded that would have been the breaks, but to say they were leaving, and this guy announcing he would soon be home and then change their minds ,well no government could withstand that. The whole of the Philipines would turn against the government.
No they already made their beds .
Iyad Allawi to the the Philippines: "You wussies! Thanks a lot for putting the rest of us in more danger. We deal with this every day and have been for the past 30 years! You don't see us cutting and running. Was thirty days too much to ask?"
It's long past time to shut off the terrorists' publicity pipeline!
Surely the receivers in HARMs can be re-tuned to the Aljzeera transmitter frequencies...