As Reuters reports, there's a phenomenal "radio silence" surrounding the kidnapping of a Fox correspondent and a free lance cameraman in Gaza.
The kidnappers, claiming to be with a previously unknown jihadist group, are demanding the release of Muslim prisoners by the US.
Is the silence because, as Reuters speculates, other news groups don't like Fox -- or is it because a discussion of whether we should be releasing prisoners from Guantanamo is just too hot?
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Given that we learned from the Jill Carroll episode that publicity actually feeds the terrorists' cause, it seems wise to me that we not acknowledge.. publically... what they are doing. I would hope that FOX, like the Christian Science Monitor, is working behind the scenes to influence the outcome.
If harm comes to one of the journalists then we should respond in kind.
This is probably one of the reasons they don't want to release them. We were culturally profoundly ignorant about the dynamics in Afghanistan, we had very few native speakers, and now we're afraid to admit we'd made mistakes. And there are likely a good many innocents paying for that.