Webloggin » Taliban A-Holes Kill Korean Hostage

Count this one as another blow to the silky pony claim that the war on terror is just a bumper sticker for the Bush administration.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A police official said Wednesday that Taliban militants told him they shot and killed one of 23 South Korean hostages, while two Western officials said some others from the group of captives were freed and taken to a U.S. military base.

Purported Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi said one of the captives had been shot and killed around 4 p.m. (7:30 a.m. EDT), and a police official who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the situation said militants told him the hostage was sick and couldn’t walk, and therefore was shot. (Ap news)

Part of the problem?

I’m not sure what makes me angrier, the fact that Democrats have become the opposition party against the prosecution of the war on terror or the fact that we have been running a politically correct war thanks to Democratic opposition.

One thing is for sure, the terrorists have demonstrated time and time again that they have no regard for human rights. They cut off peoples’ heads off, forcefully recruit children as suicide bombers, use innocents as human shields, brutally kill women, men and children without regard and now they claim to have killed a hostage like a dog because he was “sick and couldn’t walk”.

These are the same class of people that Democratic Presidential contenders such as Barack Obama would meet without precondition in a form of diplomacy. When the hell will these idiots wake up to the fact that negotiation and diplomacy are not the answer when it comes to terrorists and despotic dictators? The only solution is to hunt these animals down and shoot them where they stand.

In fact we have an example of what negotiation gets you. In this case it is in the form of extortion where the terrorists kidnap innocents for ransom. The money will no doubt go to good use.

The South Korean hostages, including 18 women, were kidnapped July 19 while riding a bus through Ghazni province on the Kabul-Kandahar highway, Afghanistan’s main thoroughfare.

South Korean negotiators have traveled to Ghazni province to take part in the negotiations.

An Afghan official involved in the negotiations had said a large sum of money would be paid to free eight of the hostages. The official spoke on condition he not be identified citing the sensitivity of the matter, and no other officials would confirm the account.

Foreign governments are suspected to have paid for the release of hostages in Afghanistan in the past but have either kept it quiet or denied it outright.

But Ahmadi had said the Afghan government had not responded to any of the Taliban’s demands and that the militants planned to kill “a few” of the captives.

Three previous deadlines have passed with no consequences.

Though some of Ahmadi’s statements turn out to be true, he also has made repeated false claims, calling into question the reliability of his information.

The series of recent kidnappings — 26 foreigners have been abducted in the last week — prompted the Afghan government to forbid foreigners living in Kabul from leaving the city without police permission.

Would the terrorists be doing these kidnappings and killing if they didn’t know that they would be paid off? From a personal perspective I can understand how the family of a loved one would want to do anything, including paying off the terrorists, to get their family members back. Who can blame them? But I can’t help from being angry that there is so little pressure on these terrorist groups that they operate without fear when they should be the ones living in absolute fear.

There should be no question as to the resolve of the United States and her allies when it comes to wiping these a-holes off the face of the earth. This is a war for our way of life, not some namby-pamby bumper sticker slogan.

One thing is certain, Democrats have done nothing but help terrorists live without fear. They continue to treat the war on terror as if each incident is an isolated crime scene, they continue to take advantage of their own politically manufactured fear that the prosecution of the war on terror somehow infringes on the rights of the innocent.

Here is a question that everyone should be asking. What kind of rights do innocent bystanders have in the expectation that their tax dollars will go toward protecting them from terrorists? What can we expect if Democrats gain further power in 2008?

Update: Bullet Riddled Body of dead hostage found

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