CNN Reporting Kidnapped Journalist Killed ...

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[RCW2001]

CNN reporting live that "New organizations have received Email claiming that kidnapped WSJ has been killed.

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[sneakypete]

While this is a horrible incident, I do not think the government should have risked the lives of mulitple military men in an attempt to go and save his butt.

I agree with your opening statement,but if the US gooberment has just been looking for a excuse to go after these people in a serious way,his kidnappying is as good a reson as any other. Plus it also has the advantage of being a "warning shot" to other potential terrorists out there to leave Americans alone.

And as far as his wife being pregnant, maybe he should have thought about that a little more before he left.

He is a arrogant reporter. So is she. They think this puts them in a special catagory where bad things only happen to other people. I DO feel sorry for him and his family,but the truth is if it had been Hay-Raldo,Cryan Bryan Gumball,Kommie Katie,Dizzy Dan,Brokwaw,Jennings,Cronkite,Wallace,Charlie Gibson,or any number of other "journalists" instead of him kidnapped,I'd send them money to keep him.

[nocommies]

we should annihilate the perps in this case, but on our timetable. we cant respond instantaneously and let them define the mission.

[Born in a Rage]

oh boy, you say we want to give up our freedoms now? the point is these freedoms have been taken away in pakistan and elsewhere.... maybe with some intense military activity, and NO interference from the liberals in the press and elsewhere, these freedoms can perhaps be spread around the globe.

Or maybe leading by example and being brave in the face of danger will motivate people in other countries.

[Phantom Lord]

The reporter who was speaking couldn't understand why Pearl would take such a risk.

I have avoided saying what I am about to say because it really is not crucial to the discussion, but here goes...

The reason he took these risks was for the big prize at the end of the tunnel if he got the "Big Story." What's the big prize? Pulitzer Prize, Cash Money, and Fame. Huge career boost that would pay massive dividends in the future. His desire for these items exceeded the danger of the situation in his mind and he went for it and lost.

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[GussiedUp]

Our "god given freedoms" and constitutional protections are not recognized nor protected in other contries. Engage in normal everyday American behaviour in a foreign land where it is not allowed and see how far "I'm and American" or "Constitutional rights" gets you.

Very well said Phantom Lord!

[Phantom Lord]

All for one and one for all, that's what I say.

Why are you here on a chat board and not suiting up to save him?

Obviously the US was not intimidated. If we were, we would have handed over the ransom requests. The US has said to release him and turn him over. They have not. And the US is not required to go in and extract his ass.

Use diplomatic channels to get the release of American civilians abroad who are kidnapped? Yes. Send in the Rangers to get a kidnapped American civilian? No.

[Helen]

I agree completely with what you said. There's one more thing that might be taken into consideration, and that is the ideal of contemporary journalists that it is their goal to "change the world". The Pulitzer Prize would be the physical evidence of that, but its importance would be that he had met the goals of the idealist.

My hope is he returns safe and wiser.

[GussiedUp]

Use diplomatic channels to get the release of American civilians abroad who are kidnapped? Yes. Send in the Rangers to get a kidnapped American civilian? No.

I completely agree.

{sitting here cheering on PL's posts!}

[sugar_puddin]

Did anybody else notice that?

Yes I noticed it too. She acted like it was no big deal.

[Born in a Rage]

Use diplomatic channels to get the release of American civilians abroad who are kidnapped? Yes.

'Negotiate' with terrorists? Never. These people don't have "diplomatic channels", you are giving them more credibility than they have. These people are nothing but maggots thriving on the cesspools of humanity.

[wheezer]

Airline pilots are taking a risk, right?

You are still missing my point....but I'll use your airline analogy to help make mine.

A well trained airline pilot following standard aviation protocol is taking a mimimum risk.

A well trained airline pilot who decided he will drink two fifths of Jack Daniels prior to take off is behaving recklessly.

I hope your not suggesting that if decided I'd rather not take the airline with the drunken pilot, that I've surrendered to the terrorists.

[bootless]

I don't know if he is or not - anything's possible, but especially after Mike Spann's murder in the Afghan prison riot, I would imagine that the CIA is on a hair trigger right now, and not in the mood for this.

[Born in a Rage]

I agree completely with what you said. There's one more thing that might be taken into consideration, and that is the ideal of contemporary journalists that it is their goal to "change the world". The Pulitzer Prize would be the physical evidence of that, but its importance would be that he had met the goals of the idealist. My hope is he returns safe and wiser.

Whew. Sure glad it's not 1776 and you're not the wife of one of our founding fathers. Lord knows there were lots of "idealists" back then.

[GussiedUp]

{sitting here cheering on PL's posts!}

Lest anyone take that wrong - probably should have said "cheering on the common sense in PL's posts" - not the situation at hand.

[GussiedUp]

Whew. Sure glad it's not 1776 and you're not the wife of one of our founding fathers. Lord knows there were lots of "idealists" back then.

The founding fathers weren't liberals.

[Kaslin]

She's European. Enof said

Sheesh, so what if she is, and it is spelled enough. This if from one whose native language is German

[Born in a Rage]

The founding fathers weren't liberals.

Actually, most of them were "classical liberals", like many people here on FR. Another thing the 'liberals' stole from us, go figure...

[GussiedUp]

The AG issued a warning last week that the nations water supply was "at risk". Did you heed that warning or did you drink the water anyway? If you drank the water, you were in danger of being killed and you were warned.

That is terrorism brought here as opposed to someone going into a known situation, deliberately, after being warned not to.

[Helen]

The concepts our founding fathers labored under was a far cry from the individualist, selfish, and often misguided self-importance of many of today's "government school", liberal-indoctrinated graduates.