“The leader of the Haitian gang who kidnapped 17 US and Canadian missionaries has threatened to kill the hostages if he doesn’t get what he’s demanding,” CNN reported on Thursday, October 21, 2021 (read story here). What he wants is $1 million per hostage.
Five of those hostages are children, siblings in a missionary family. They are “an 8-month-old infant, a 3-year-old and a 6-year-old, [and] two young teenagers,” CNN said. The 17 hostages are from “Amish, Mennonite and … Anabaptist communities across six US states and Ontario.”
The victims’ families “on Thursday thanked supporters and describing the kidnapping as a ‘unique opportunity’ to show compassion. ‘God has given our loved ones the unique opportunity to live out our Lord’s command to love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you,’ the families said.”
Here’s a better idea: Delta Force.
Bring the full weight of our government and all its resources to bear. Use our intelligence and law enforcement agencies to find out who the kidnappers are, where they are, and where the hostages are. Then organize a rescue mission, wait for the right moment, and …
This is what Delta Force trains for. It’s why we have it. So let’s use it. To free the hostages if possible, and no matter what else happens, kill the kidnappers.
Haiti has become increasingly lawless and dangerous, and you can argue those people — especially the children — shouldn’t have been there. It’s too late for that. Our government now has to deal with the reality of their captivity and peril.
Law enforcement experts almost always advise against paying ransom, because it perpetuates the cycle. If kidnapping is profitable, and the kidnappers get away with it, they’ll keep doing it. There will be more victims. And more. It’ll never end.
So how do you overcome that? By stringing them along, playing the game, then pouncing at the opportune moment. And inflicting a bloodbath on them. That gang, if they’re dead, will never do it again; and their deaths might deter others.
If our government is competent its intelligence agencies are working to pinpoint locations and passing that information to the military, and operational planning and practice are underway as I type this. There’s no reason to be queasy about this. These kidnappers are criminals who don’t deserve to live. Our government has used its military forces to rescue Americans being held captive on foreign soil before. We have well established protocols for this.
It will send a message to all the rest that they mess with Americans at their peril. And above all, this Haitian gang deserves to face America’s guns.
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