Land Doesn T Pay Ransom Case Study
Summary about RAND and its case “Why the U.S. Swaps Prisoners but Doesn't Pay Ransom”
RAND is a most famous think tank in this world. Full name of RAND is Research and Development. It was found at 1948 as a non-profit organizations, and it was beginning to provide research and intelligence analysis services to the United States military. After several years, RAND’s research extended to many areas, like public policy,education,science and technology,etc.
This case is from RAND about the solution to terrorism. Tell us why the U.S government choose this way to solve this kind of problem and its influence by analysis a recent report.From the case we know, the U.S refuse to pay ransom for reporter Foley cause Foley got murdered. But several weeks …show more content…
Why the U.S government deal with this kind of problem in different way? First, between money and prisoners, Initially, the United States took the position that the host country was responsible for the safety of diplomats accredited to it. Therefore, if American diplomats were kidnapped, it was up to these host countries to secure their release. The U.S government don’t care about the way the other country save American diplomats and other government officials. After the case in 1973, it is a signal that American change its attitude to be more strict than before. President Nixon made it clear:” As far as the United States as a government giving in to blackmail demands, we cannot do so and we will not do so.”It has been U.S. policy not to make concessions or negotiate with terrorists ever since.(APA:http://www.rand.org/blog/2014/09/why-the-us-swaps-prisoners-but-doesnt-pay-ransom.html,paragraph 5,line 3). After this, the U.S refuse to pay any ransom and release the convicted assassins.Because the premise is that yielding to terrorist kidnappers only encourages more kidnapping, after they realized it is a useful method to publicize themselves and earn money, soldiers and civilians will be more dangerous than before. Also, they will use the ransom to buy more arms and equip themselves and create more terror activities.At that time the situation may be worse than now. Hostage situations are
RAND is a most famous think tank in this world. Full name of RAND is Research and Development. It was found at 1948 as a non-profit organizations, and it was beginning to provide research and intelligence analysis services to the United States military. After several years, RAND’s research extended to many areas, like public policy,education,science and technology,etc.
This case is from RAND about the solution to terrorism. Tell us why the U.S government choose this way to solve this kind of problem and its influence by analysis a recent report.From the case we know, the U.S refuse to pay ransom for reporter Foley cause Foley got murdered. But several weeks …show more content…
Why the U.S government deal with this kind of problem in different way? First, between money and prisoners, Initially, the United States took the position that the host country was responsible for the safety of diplomats accredited to it. Therefore, if American diplomats were kidnapped, it was up to these host countries to secure their release. The U.S government don’t care about the way the other country save American diplomats and other government officials. After the case in 1973, it is a signal that American change its attitude to be more strict than before. President Nixon made it clear:” As far as the United States as a government giving in to blackmail demands, we cannot do so and we will not do so.”It has been U.S. policy not to make concessions or negotiate with terrorists ever since.(APA:http://www.rand.org/blog/2014/09/why-the-us-swaps-prisoners-but-doesnt-pay-ransom.html,paragraph 5,line 3). After this, the U.S refuse to pay any ransom and release the convicted assassins.Because the premise is that yielding to terrorist kidnappers only encourages more kidnapping, after they realized it is a useful method to publicize themselves and earn money, soldiers and civilians will be more dangerous than before. Also, they will use the ransom to buy more arms and equip themselves and create more terror activities.At that time the situation may be worse than now. Hostage situations are