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jaganath69
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enns
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The families of the hostages have appealed for the US to intervene. http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/08/01/afghan-hostages.html
I hope the mission goes well and the hostages are safe. However, I think the biggest tragedy would be if the soldiers attempting the mission were to die in action; I think that could provide the impetus for world governments to ban missionaries(or aid workers in general) from dangerous places where they have no business being. |
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darkhorse_NZ
Joined: 20 Feb 2007
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 5:35 am Post subject: Re: Korean Hostage Rescue Begins |
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| jaganath69 wrote: |
http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2007-08-01T122306Z_01_ISL42047_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-AFGHAN-HOSTAGES-COL.XML
Let's hope the hostages are brought back unharmed and that the Taliban get what's coming to them. No word on the make up of the forces, but I hope assume they would be NATO, maybe even American, which would be cool to see the US haters on the left here react to a successful mission. Boo Ya! |
maybe they'll use this newly formed Afghan unit:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12127848 |
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Tony_Balony
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| Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 7:43 am Post subject: |
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| I'm a little suspicious when a secret op is has a press release. Interesting development tho, ty for the post. |
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Paddycakes
Joined: 05 May 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 8:14 am Post subject: |
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I would like to see them rescued by Korean commado's.
For them to be rescued by American soldiers would be too humiliating for the Koreans, who, as we all know, have an ethnic short-man syndrome that can be pretty intense. |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 2:40 pm Post subject: |
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| enns wrote: |
| The families of the hostages have appealed for the US to intervene. |
Not our problem. Maybe it might be if so many South Koreans were not so bitterly antiAmerican. But they are.
In diplo-speak: "return their letter to them without comment." |
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just another day
Joined: 12 Jul 2007
Location: Living with the Alaskan Inuits!!
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| Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 4:08 pm Post subject: |
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| they appealed as in, please free the taliban hostages held at the US base. |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 4:19 pm Post subject: |
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| just another day wrote: |
| ...please free the taliban hostages held at the US base. |
No. Absolutely not. And we ought not change our policy on negotiating with such groups for the South Koreans or their, "frankly," dumb-assed, stars-in-their-eyes, self-righteous missionaries who decided to walk into a dirty, guerrilla war involving Islamic fundamentalists of their own free will.
If the guerrillas were holding, say, a British royal or someone similar, that would be an entirely different story. But as it is, the South Koreans dislike us, burn our flags, and do not need us "foreigners," remember?
Perhaps they should appeal to Kim Jong Il? I understand they admire much about him and his cleverness in dealing with the United States. Maybe he can help them? Or why not appeal to God, for that matter? |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
| just another day wrote: |
| ...please free the taliban hostages held at the US base. |
No. Absolutely not. And we ought not change our policy on negotiating with such groups for the South Koreans or their, "frankly," dumb-assed, stars-in-their-eyes, self-righteous missionaries who decided to walk into a dirty, guerrilla war involving Islamic fundamentalists of their own free will.
If the guerrillas were holding, say, a British royal or someone similar, that would be an entirely different story. But as it is, the South Koreans dislike us, burn our flags, and do not need us "foreigners," remember?
Perhaps they should appeal to Kim Jong Il? I understand they admire much about him and his cleverness in dealing with the United States. Maybe he can help them? Or why not appeal to God, for that matter? |
I would not quite phrase things the way you did, Gopher, but I would say they went to a country where an Afghan who converted Catholicism was almost executed. They went after the fact. These missionaries have a mission completely unrelated to the mission of Nato in Afghanistan, have no permission or affiliation from international organisations. Koreans want Taliban prisoners released, so they can have their loved ones back. That is natural, but how many British, American, and Canadian families want Taliban who killed their boys to be released? I don't think that can happen. I am not going to comment on the anti-Americanism in Korea much except to say they don't appreciate the fact that the United States is defending their border and I haven't seen appreciation for them.
Missionaries can do great humanitarian worker, I am not suggestion they aren't good people who believe in God and helping their fellow man, but it was simply ignorant, arrogant, and foolish to go to Afghanistan!! I hope they make it. It is up to Nato to release some Taliban, but it is not like Israel releasing Palestinians to Mahmoud Abbas. At least, Abbas is sane and is not looking to kill Israelis. The Taliban aren't freedom fighters, they are religious terrorists who killed Nato troops and are not trying to get along with Nato or other Afghans. |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 6:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Adventurer wrote: |
| I would not quite phrase things the way you did... |
Do not misunderstand, Adventurer: I am not anti-missionary or anti-religious, for that matter.
Rather, like Obama who explains he is not anti-war but rather "anti-stupid-war," I am having a hard time feeling any sympathy at all for South Korea's Christian missionaries walking into Afghanistan's deepest depths to do God's bidding at this particular point in time.
Kind of like deciding to play with wild animals in the ocean or jungle. What the hell were they thinking?
That is a separate issue from my proposed denying the South Korean's help along other grounds, by the way. |
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Harpeau
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
Location: Coquitlam, BC
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| Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 6:05 pm Post subject: |
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[quote="Gopher"]
| just another day wrote: |
...If the guerrillas were holding, say, a British royal or someone similar, that would be an entirely different story. |
No it wouldn't.  |
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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ROFL. The media and their fear that some other source might scoop them leads to all kinds of good information...
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