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South Korean Politicians Blame U.S. for Taliban Hostages

Korean officials seek direct negotiations with kidnappers.

Elizabeth Lawson | posted 8/03/2007 10:24AM

Pleas for U.S. cooperation in freeing South Korea's hostages have turned to accusations of blame. Korean politicians denounced the U.S.'s handling of the crisis at a meeting of the ruling Yeollin Uri ...

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CJL	Posted: August 08, 2007 7:20 AM

So let me get this straight...there are captured Korean missionaries being held by the Taliban. Check. The Korean government is trying to get them back. Check. The US has a policy of no negotiating with terrorist in order to keep to discourage them from doing it. Check. Now the Koreans are blaming the US for the lack of the Taliban not releasing their people? Huh? Whatever happened to blaming the evil ones, namely the Taliban? Can the Koreans not negotiate for their own people? Are they not a soveriegn government? Is the Korean government ignorant when they say that the cause of this hostage crisis is our being in Afghanistan? We did not capture the Koreans; the taliban chose to capture the Korean missionaries on their own volition. We did not make them do that. Korea needs to stop pointing fingers at the US and wake up and realize that the Taliban is a terrorist organization bent on causing as much evil as possible. The US is their ally in this fight, not their enemy.

Minnie Berry

Posted: August 07, 2007 11:16 AM

No matter what our government does, death to any of the hostages will be inputed to the U.S. We cannot release Taliban prisoners who will return to the capture, torture and murder of whomever they choose just as those who are holding these hostages. It is not "just principle" to refuse this demand. I wonder about the training given to NGO as well as small missionary groups of short duration, in which a lot of the participants are very young. Were these hostages told in detail about what they would encounter in Afghanistan? How their behaviour in exercising what we Christians take for granted in our freedoms is particularly offensive to Islamists? That no matter where Christians go in the world, we must take care to be mindful of the culture of those in whose country we are guests just as we as guests in another's home try to be aware of the expectations of those whose home it is? That those whose world they enter, may simply kill them because they want to kill?

Jim Coons

Posted: August 07, 2007 7:52 AM


I really wish it were true that George Bush was responsible for everything that is bad on earth and in the hearts of men.

Jim Coons

Posted: August 07, 2007 7:51 AM


I really wish it were true that George Bush was responsible for everything that is bad on earth and in the hearts of men.

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