British Hostage - Tactical Error?

[agchristie]

Is the criticism of the Foreign Secretary by Lord Dannatt fair or would it not make any difference whatsoever to ISIL? Was it a mistake to 'show one's hand? Whenever we hear that 'everything possible is being done to get hostages freed', how convincing is this when there seems to be no negotiating channels?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/11098980/Foreign-Secretary-criticised-for-showing-our-hand-over-British-hostage.html

[Zacs-Master]

Let's put Alex Salmond forward after Thursday.

[naomi24]

//the West is blinded by the absurd notion that everybody in the world would be OK if only they had democracy.//

The west is blinded by the notion that everyone plays by the rules of right, wrong, and morality. ISIS is laughing at us.

[Zacs-Master]

Macarthyism?

[naomi24]

Yes - but we make the mistake of endowing ISIS with a mindset that in some way mirrors our own - but it doesn't. They are laughing at us.

[agchristie]

Naomi - let's hope it's a case of 'he who laughs last, laughs longest'.

Calm before the storm methinks.