Don’t discuss ransom, just pay it
“Too much transparency is damaging”? Since when? And for whom? Media speculation about ransom payments paid by the German government for the release of the two German hostages Nitzschke and Bräunlich is being frowned upon with distaste by German officials. They worry it would put other Germans currently in Iraq at risk (uh, since when have all these Germans been down there in Iraq anyway?). This is interesting. That Germans were famous for avoiding risk was nothing new to me, but now they have to avoid speculation, too?
“After all, it was no coincidence that the two Leipzig-based engineers were kidnapped immediately after the German hostage Susanne Osthoff was freed in Iraq and while speculations were circulating in the media about whether or not ransom money had been paid.”
Wow, how true. There really does seem to be some kind of a connection here. I mean, in the interest of all of those tens of thousands of Germans down there in that awful hornet’s nest of Iraq we do need to maybe step back and take a moment and realize that we are only endangering them by speculating about the ransom money the German government so obviously and eagerly pays anybody willing to ask for it.
Just shut up, the government is here to help you again, in other words. And if we really get thoughtful about it, perhaps we should also take a moment and think about all of the other foreign nationalities down there who might also possibly-conceivably-maybe be threatened by such a despicable policy like this. The German government obviously won’t be doing so.
Too much transparency is indeed damaging. It’s damaging for any government that encourages kidnapping by showing the world time and time again that it is willing to pay kidnappers.
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