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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (145258)	8/22/2014 1:38:39 PM
From: pcstel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

<Technically, Bergdahl wasn't a hostage; as a soldier, he was a POW.< ??? I didn't realize that? I assumed he was supposedly held against his will by a terrorist group. I never heard the US made a formal declaration of WAR against Al-Qaida. I mean to be a Prisoner of War, wouldn't you have to be at war? I mean, technically speaking? So if we wasn't a POW, and Al-Qaida held him to use him as a bargaining chip.. Then wouldn't that make him a hostage? <Foley was killed because we began to bomb ISIS. Another hostage will be killed if we don't stop bombing. We won't. < But, news media maintains that ISIS offered him in exchange for a hundred million dollars plus in exchange for his life. Media claims other countries have paid the financial hostage demands, but the US refused to pay. If your Goverment has a policy of not negotiating with Terrorists, then a Terrorist Group has very little to gain in taking hostages. If you Government has a policy of negotiating with Terrorists Groups, then those groups have an incentive to obtain bargaining chips. PCSTEL