They only take them hostage so that they can torture them before they kill them. My view is that if this ploy worked just 5% of the time, the terrorists would quickly be on the ropes. As it is, we’re getting our heads handed to us.
That is complete BS - The MSM have scored their sought after victory over mindset like yours -
Changing the world & bringing the ME out of the dark ages is an incredibly difficult task.....but it is a task we had to undertake....in order to assure our national security in both the short term and long term.
Lets all understand a basic reality, no war goes perfectly and in all our successes of wars past.....until victory was achieved there were easily dozens of reasons to list "where we were failing", or "where we could have done better", etc, etc, etc.
Bottom line is on the whole (in terms of our true success) those reasons were all a bunch of BS......The same holds true today...
On the whole we are clearly winning this WOT. Our enemies have suffered one strategic defeat after another...we have not suffered one....
The one area of this WOT/Iraq we are losing is the PR aspect to this war (your mindset is a testament to this). The RNC/WH have done a terrible job in this aspect of the WOT.
How there is not a WOT supporting 527 up and fully resourced...running a once a week TV ad campaign is beyond me....It is pathetic that the powers that be in the WH/RNC have not made certain of such a WOT supporting 527.
Outside of that, the notion that we are losing (or getting our heads handed to us) is complete and utter BS.