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To shift emphasis from being one of the hostages, to looking in from the outside at a hostage situation: I dunno how far back the idea occurred--a good number of years, anyway. It's harsh, but our national policy should be that any hostage is, by definition, dead. There will be no negotiation. Period.
Mr. Bank Robber, we don't care what you do inside that house. You're alone with dead bodies. Either come out right now, or die.
Mr. Terrorist...Ditto.
No TV news allowed anywhere near the site; no telephones; electricity and water turned off. No negotiation at all; just police snipers, waiting.
We might lose a few folks; some Bad Guys are slow learners. However, the word would spread and the behavior would change, right in line with Spectre's comments about the changes in Israel.
(The "Palestinian" terrorists commonly attacked schools. Israel armed and trained its teachers. After a few cases of Teachers win, Terrorists lose, the terrs sought other targets.)
Another national policy matter (IMO) oughta be that any hijacked airplane is by definition not going for anybody's brother or becoming a symbol of protest and subject to negotiations on TV. It is now a flying bomb and all passengers should try to emulate Flight 93.
"That was then;" and "this is now." are divided by 9-11.
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