What POs me is that our military will have to look for them and take risks on their behalf anyway.
They could well be in on it and still get killed. If you're a jihadi group struggling to get hostages, you may say "oh, we won't harm you, just film some videos". Then they grab 'em and decide it would be more beneficial to torture and kill them, while al Jazeera shows the video.
Side note: Remember when that one Italian hostage was executed--he took the hood off his head and said "this is how an Italian dies".
Al Jazeera refused to show that part of the video, because the man who was murdered humiliated the murderers by refusing to cower. Keep that in mind any time some lib says that Al Jazeera is a neutral party. They're engaged in propaganda and refuse to show anything that makes Zarqawi and company out to be the true cowards that they are.
You're absolutely right, it is embarrassing that the US military is using resources to try to rescue these jihadi-loving punks.