16-04-2009, 07:37 AM
Myra Bronstein Wrote:.....A hostage has no value unless the kidnappers are willing to kill him.
And he most certainly has ZERO value once he has been killed. Put yourself in the pirates position - out of ammo and fuel for their boat with guns trained on them. There is only one thing that you can be absolutely certain of: Kill the hostage and you yourself will be dead in short order. You are effectively committing suicide. Personally I doubt they intended suicide.
Quote: ... don't see anything incredible about fearing for the life of the hostage whether guns were pointed at the hostage at that instant or not.Neither do I; but I DO question whether, in all the circumstances, shooting the pirates was necessary to securing the release of the hostage unharmed. Seems to me that there were other calculations involved, ably pointed out by others on the thread.
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
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"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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