Well as we saw with Mr. Curtis's release and with many people that I was involved with in Iraq, there's a human element here that is really compelling and I have sympathy for anybody who tries to do anything to get people released but there's a higher political and also security aspect to this and I think the U.S. policy is right.
James Jeffrey emphasizes the balance between humanitarian concerns and national security in U.S. hostage policy.
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We would do everything short of military force to try to hold off a Turkish incursion.
What we got was a marginal product. It also does the job for 10 years of keeping them a year away from having a nuclear capability if they adhere to it.