OMG !!! - 'Government Threatened Foley Family Over Ransom Payments, Mother of Slain Journalist Says'

[sabrina 1]

132. What encourages terrorism and kidnapping is our foreign policies, our very presence in these places,

our own kidnappings and torture and renditions and bombings and destabilization of these regions. THAT is the single biggest factor together with our support for dictators, that is the cause of these groups having a raison d'etre regarding the kidnapping of westerners.

And because of that our government OWES the people their policies placed in those positions, whatever it takes to save their lives.

Every other country values the lives of even one of their citizens more than the theory that it rescuing them is the major cause of any of this. But not here, we do not place any value on life.

I don't care what some pundit says to support these awful policies, that life could have been saved and it wasn't while others who were kidnapped with him, were saved.

Shame on us for our lack of respect for human life and for refusing to acknowledge the culpability of our government in the whole mess in the first place.

I guarantee one thing, if Dick Cheney's daughter was the victim, our policy of not dealing with terrorists would change in an instant.