Midknight Review -- new and revised: Obama refused to pay ransom for James Foley in spite of the fact that he paid a 5 million dollar ransom for hostages, two years ago.

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The NYTimes is reporting this refusal to save Foley: Kneeling in the dirt in a desert somewhere in the Middle East, James Foley lost his life this week at the hands of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Before pulling out the knife used to decapitate him, his masked executioner explained that he was killing the 40-year-old American journalist in retaliation for the recent United States’ airstrikes against the terrorist group in Iraq.

In fact, until recently, ISIS had a very different list of demands for Mr. Foley: The group pressed the United States to provide a multimillion-dollar ransom for his release, according to a representative of his family and a former hostage held alongside him. The United States — unlike several European countries that have funneled millions to the terror group to spare the lives of their citizens — refused to pay.

Editor’s notes: We refused to pay this ransom, arguing that "America does not make deals with terrorists." I remind the readership of the Bergdahl hostage trade (a human ransom paid to demanding terrorists for a deserter) and the fact that Obama paid a $5 million ransom to terrorists in Egypt, several years ago.

The Stated Nonsense from the Left now includes these Progressive goals:

July 2, 2008, Obama had this to say: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."

“ . . . . . . they have become a generation of activists possessed with that most American of ideas – that people who love their country can change it.” -- Obama the Radical

On September 30, Van Jones told MSNBC "I think everybody should hold onto your seats. October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back."

Midknight Review -- new and revised

Obama refused to pay ransom for James Foley in spite of the fact that he paid a 5 million dollar ransom for hostages, two years ago.

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