SO if the bad guys in Iraq have 50 hostages, and you still have 16 good men under fire, are you saying you just lay there and get picked off until you are all either dead or captured ?

You do remember that being captured means a certain death, and most likely beheaded and drug through the streets and then burned........you are not dealing with a State, let alone a State which plays by the rules......

IF taking hostages and making a scene meant 100% certain and immediate death, I think that tactic would largely be a thing of the past.....

We HAD a policy against negotiating with terrorists, what ever happened to that ?