Comments on: Body of second murdered South Korean Christian hostage found Update 7/31: Another deadline looms

By: Tel-Chai Nation

Tel-Chai Nation — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 18:44:56 +0000

South Korean hostage crisis…

I wish I hadn’t been so busy in the past two weeks, otherwise, I would’ve had more time to blog about this horrifying case of at least 21 Korean relief workers who were taken prisoner in Afganistan by Taliban terrorists…

By: Just A Grunt

Just A Grunt — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:08:21 +0000

Fox News tv is reporting that the Afghans have launched a mission to rescue the hostages. Details are sketchy.

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 06:19:40 +0000

When is South Korea going to wake up and smell the jihad?

By: doingwhatican

doingwhatican — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 03:25:33 +0000

For every hostage they kill, we should kill the ones they want freed.

By: Schweggie

Schweggie — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 02:08:34 +0000

Does scorched earth serve as an effective deterrent to future hostage taking though with these godless zealots who are more than happy to die themselves? I don’t know the answer to that question…

By: OneFreeKorea » Ransom Is Not a Countermeasure

OneFreeKorea » Ransom Is Not a Countermeasure — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 02:00:33 +0000

[...] [Update: More spinning this into an anti-American issue, via Michelle Malkin] [...]

By: PBoilermaker

PBoilermaker — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:50:50 +0000

I’d seriously wager that more people know about Paris’ real estate dealings than this hostage situation.

By: 24Klady

24Klady — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:30:36 +0000

I find it against everything I’ve been taught to encourage the “scorched earth, take no prisoners” line. However, in times of absolute honesty, whatever direction we take at this point must be one of preserving humanity. Not barbarity, not of total submission to anything that would foster this kind of insanity. Blacktygrrr, the assumption they are all lost is more probably right than wrong.

And, Paris Hilton’s house is on the market for $4.2 million.

By: blacktygrrrr

blacktygrrrr — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:56:22 +0000

These hostages are already dead. It is tragic, it makes me angry, but they cannot be rescued through diplomacy. The only solution is a military one. “Scorched Earth” cannot be a slogan. It has to be policy.

Dialogue with these animals has never worked. It is time to find the, torture them, and then kill them.

http://blacktygrrrr.wordpress.com/2007/05/03/we-are-at-wartorture-early-often-and-repeatedly/

http://blacktygrrrr.wordpress.com/2007/04/03/turn-iran-and-syria-into-50000-hole-golf-courses/

We can sing kumbaya and start a love train once they are gone from the Earth.

I pray to God I am wrong about the hostages. I am not wrong about the hostage takers.

Respectfully,

eric

By: RedWinged Blackbird

RedWinged Blackbird — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:14:12 +0000

Interesting thread at Ummah.com. This seems to be the most popular English language Muslim forum (at least as far as I can tell). It's based in the U.K. and is not generally regarded as jihadist.

By: 24Klady

24Klady — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:50:20 +0000

I see absolutely no difference between members of the Taliban and the groupies that followed Charles Manson. They can justify their evil to the world and never see it is against every norm in the civilized world. They either need execution or being locked up for life. Other than intelligence gathering (which POTUS just placed under new restrictions) I see no reason to take prisoners. They don’t – unless they can ransom them. Deepest sympathy to the families of these young people.

By: UPDATE: Hostage Confirmed Killed, Anti-US Movement Hopes to Capitolize at ROK Drop

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:22:53 +0000

[...] can read more over at Lost Nomad, Michelle Malkin, & Michael [...]

By: Leatherneck

Leatherneck — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:39:10 +0000

I care. It is like that Muslim Malvo who shot folks every other day. Who will be next and when, is the terror these followers of the religion of peace what you to feel.

By: The Infidel Terrorist » S. Korean Hostages Update: New Deadline

The Infidel Terrorist » S. Korean Hostages Update: New Deadline — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:30:34 +0000

[...] Thanks to Michelle Malkin for this story from the Daily Telegraph: The Taliban set the government a new deadline of noon tomorrow (5.30pm Wednesday AEST) to meet its demands in order to save 21 South Koreans, a day after a second hostage was killed. [...]

By: olblueyes

olblueyes — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:29:02 +0000

You just don’t hear about it because Afghanistan doesn’t get the coverage Iraq does.

Every once in awhile I hear tidbits about goings-on in Afghanistan, such as the 70 or so taliban killed then they tried to ambush the afghan army; i think right around the time this hostage situation broke out. However, it seems the U.S. is replaying the Vietnam war here, waiting for the taliban to leave their safehaven in Pakistan (North Waziristan) and come venturing down into Afghanistan to wreak havoc at will. As long as the Taliban is free to roam the remote mountaineous region between these two countries, the original goal of denying terrorists a safe haven remains unfulfilled. I don’t need to know specifics of covert operations in Pakistan, but i would feel better knowing something is being done about it.

It can’t be that hard to launch about two dozen UAV’s to monitor the border and have them blow the crap out of anything travelling in the mountains. I’m sure there is something I am missing here…