7/20/2004 11:04:51 AM|||Nathan Moore|||

But the release of that Filipino truck driver after blackmailing the Phillipine government into withdrawing its troops sets a bad precedent and will result in more death at the hands of the Iraqi insurgency.  It's heartless, and I don't want to see any unnecessary death, but if the terrorists had gone ahead and killed the man anyway, the resolve of the other nations in the coalition would have been steeled.
 
Appeasement breeds death and destruction.  All the Phillipine government did today is cheapen the life of every member of the Allied force currently in Iraq.  Hostage taking now works, and it gets the terrorists what they desire - bloodless capitulation.  Now we will see more hostages, and more death.  No doubt we will still win the peace, but now at the expense of more dead civilians.
 
 

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