How to Deal With Hostage Takers: Soviet Lessons (2014)

Re:How to Deal With Hostage Takers: Soviet Lessons (2014) by Cyph0n on Saturday November 14, 2015 @03:03PM (#10567013)

Or: how a dictatorship deals with dissidents.

More on topic, should the US castrate relatives of ISIS leaders and threaten to bomb Mecca? That would be really effective. /s

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Re:How to Deal With Hostage Takers: Soviet Lessons (2014) by frozenport on Saturday November 14, 2015 @03:11PM (#10567033)

Maybe!

If you want to control the area you threaten the local leaders into submission, this was how the West colonized the world. Then you collect their resources, but does the US still need oil at $20 a barrel?

So, it remains unclear what the objectives are with ISIS.

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Re:How to Deal With Hostage Takers: Soviet Lessons (2014) by dogma1138 on Saturday November 14, 2015 @03:22PM (#10567068)

No because they know that the US would never do it, and wouldn't be even in a position to make that threat. The Soviets however could care less about political, perceptual, and moral implications of such threats and often acted upon them.

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