The Illusion of a Hostage Policy
By Robin Wright
So what do we do now? It has been a day of unfathomable savagery by ISIS. Who would even think of caging a human being and then burning him alive?
Unfortunately, the US faces the same dangers as it gets ever more deeply enmeshed in what is almost certain to be a long war against the Islamic State as well as al Qaeda franchises on three continents. My piece in The New Yorker today on a conundrum the US faces over our own hostages. Read on....
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/illusion-hostage-policy
By Robin Wright
So what do we do now? It has been a day of unfathomable savagery by ISIS. Who would even think of caging a human being and then burning him alive?
Unfortunately, the US faces the same dangers as it gets ever more deeply enmeshed in what is almost certain to be a long war against the Islamic State as well as al Qaeda franchises on three continents. My piece in The New Yorker today on a conundrum the US faces over our own hostages. Read on....
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/illusion-hostage-policy
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