HOW TO WIN A WAR

Will YOU be the next hostage?

The now well- established way to win a war. is to take hostages, not one, not two, and not highly–placed officials.  Just common ordinary 'you', your children, your grandparents, your babies…it doesn't matter because almost everyone is loved and treasured by another. Now, the key is, don't just take a few. Take as many as possible. They can take a celebration, a whole small town, and, yes, they have already taken nations hostage and they win. Then, if some are killed or known to be injured enroute, the power and the threat of the kidnappers is only enhanced. It's to their advantage to proclaim your torture, injury and even your death.

Now that the terrorists, the often-drugged, power hungry war mongers have seen one of the most powerful of governments subdued and willing to give into their demands, there will be no limit anywhere in the world. Even the captured fighters will live to fight again, free to murder, maim and terrorize, with no fear of re-arrest.

So what's to be done? Must decent human beings become monsters like them in order to live free and ensure their own survival??

With this victory of Hamas, no matter how many soldiers  and civilians they lost, every person in the world is at risk of being taken hostage in exchange for power, money, fame and religious extremism. Every sicko, religious fanatic, from the individual to heads of nations, to the leaders of every insurgent and terrorist group in the world, they all now know the key to victory: hostages, the more the better.  Their aim is to rule the world, to subjugate all nations  down to the level of the individual, on pain of death or disfigurement.  It's not theoretical, it is real, physical and there for the world to see in the countries they rule -- top of the list Iran, Afghanistan, among others.

Those taken prisoner just enjoy a respite and time of rest until they are released to fight again. Those of their fighters that are injured receive top level medical assistance at our finest hospitals, only to be released to kill again.  Are we naive fools?  Is it so very important to be humane to murderers such as these.  Have civilized nations become to weak to maintain civilization against murderous barbarians? Unfortunately, it begins to appear so, as even the overly 'humane' Israel suffers the howling of antisemitic hordes of the so-called liberal nations.  Must Israel bow down to the terror in order to accommodate sensitivities of those who do not live under threat of death?   (I seem to remember some civil wars in their histories that were not so civil, even to each other.) So we should give up our freedom in order to appease their newly found civility?

Yet we all hurt for those in captivity and we all feel the pain of their families. What can we do to avoid surrender and more war, more captives, in the future?

Where will it end? Who has the answer?