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The Search for Missing Troops
Last Saturday, an insurgent attack left four US soldiers and an Iraqi translator dead, and three other soldiers missing.
In the intervening time, Al Qeada has claimed responsibility for the attack. This is playbook AQ, and my prayers are with the abductees and the soldiers who are looking for them, which leads to my next point...
In yet another development, the military commanders have mobilized as many as 4,000 troops to begin searching for the soldiers. This is complete blanket, door-to-door searching that apparently has the local AQ freaks wetting themselves, as they have since demanded in another communique that we stop searching for the soldiers if we want them to remain safe.
This is apparently a shiny, new definition of the word 'safe' I wasn't previously aware of. AQ and it's subspecies of various organizations would have us believe that if we hold off on looking into terrorist operations, our soldiers will remain in just peachy shape. Probably at an Islamic resort somewhere; mango facials, copious hallal meals, some of them swingin' white robes that make you look like the Hugh Hefner of Arabia.
Right. If they are alive, they're likely getting beaten senseless and losing digits while some junior jihadi is trying to round up batteries of the camcorder.
In the real world, the faster we find them, the better. Allah (read the article linked above) seems to think it's likely that they're already dead. I want to disagree, but I can hardly give any evidence to the contrary. Secondarily, I hope that the panic we're causing them is due to the fact that they didn't expect us to blanket the area and possibly uncover far too much of their operations. In which case, taking hostages would have been a grand mistake for which the abduction of three soldiers wasn't worth the price.
Such is the principle of negotiating with terrorists. Once they find that the price to pay for such atrocities is too high, we begin to collect points in the real battle against terrorism.
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