In the case of Stephen Farrell and his Taliban captors, I think not. Especially given that Farrell had been warned multiple times it was unsafe, AND that he had been kidnapped five years ago in Iraq in somewhat similar circumstances.
I honestly wonder if he’s suffering from the war addiction syndrome that Chris Hedges wrote about a few years ago. And, judging by the Telegraph story, I wonder also if his higher-ups at the New York Times aren’t a bit tone-deaf to all this. At the least, I think the paper needs to pull Farrell back stateside.
Meanwhile, hostage negotiators said they were surprised at the raid, claiming they were close to getting Farrell’s peaceful release.
And, will this drive support for the war in Britain even lowe/
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