You have to understand who you're dealing with, in order to determine if negotiations are worthwhile. --Garland
I still say that even if a terrorist's goals are extremely easy to fulfull, they don't deserve them. If I blow up a train full of people, then put a bomb in another train and say "Give me a sandwich or I'll kill more people!", are you saying I should be given my sandwich and sent on my way? No. I should be hunted down like a dog for being a killer.
Making a deal with someone requires that both sides of the deal are entering the deal willingly. When one side has a bomb planted next to the other side, there is no willingness. Making a deal with someone requires that both sides have good faith that the other will honor that deal. When one side shows that they have no regard even for the lives of innocent people, how can you trust ANYTHING they say, or say they'll do? When a "deal" is initiated by violence, by definition no "deal" is possible. To attempt to reason with someone like that, to rely on their honor or their word, is stupidity of the highest degree. What happens when they decide the deal isn't good enough any longer and they want more, and they happen to have more bombs? And you've already proven that you're willing to submit to force with no resistance; why SHOULDN'T they keep using force? How much are we willing to give, for the sake of "peace"? Can you even call that peace; surrendering to your enemies, and trying to keep him happy enough so he doesn't murder you?
Do we live in a world where you can get anything you want if you have enough bombs to scare people into giving it to you? I certainly hope not.
These are people's LIVES. You are talking about killing people, and probably innocent ones along with the guilty.
If innocent people die during the hunt for terrorists, blame the terrorists for STARTING the violence to begin with. If there was a guy with a nuclear bomb on in a briefcase, and he was sitting in a room full of babies making demands, if I had a clear shot at killing that guy, I'd do it in a second, no matter how many babies I killed. Even if I had to shoot every baby in the room. And it wouldn't be my fault in any sense. If you let the bad guys dictate the terms, and let them use your own views and values against you, you're as good as defeated. You're giving the bad guys power over yourself. How much are you willing to sacrifice? Because there is no limit to how much an evil person is willing to take.
In Vietnam apparently they used little girls as snipers. In some wars apparently they sometimes strap bombs to little tiny children and send them after the other side. In Iraq they'd often house troops in hospitals and schools and schools, from what I know. Would you just sit there and die, because you have to kill an innocent person? And when all the "good" people are dead, for fear of hurting innocent people, then what? If killing innocent people is necessary to get rid of evil men who have, can, and will kill even MORE innocent people, then it's your DUTY to kill innocent people if necessary to stop those evil men. Only if necessary. Do no more than you have to, but definitely do no less.
This reminds me of the old fairy tales where a dragon is in a cave and demands 10 virgin daughters from the nearby village every year, or else he'll destroy the whole town, and so the villagers do it. THAT attitude, that surrender to evil, is what makes me sick. Willingness to sacrifice everything that should be dear to you, for example your own safety, your own values, your own right to exist without living under the threat of violence, that makes me sick.
