It took me only a second to find out about the circumstances of the death of Ajmal Naqshbandi: <http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20070730/014446.html>.
The Italian journalist taken hostage together with Naqshbandi survived because the "Afghan government" agreed to a prisoner exchange, but the "Afghan government" was told by the American and European governments not to do any more exchanges like that, and so Naqshbandi was killed by his Taliban captors.
On 8/4/07, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 12:58 -0700, Doug Henwood wrote:
> > On Aug 3, 2007, at 12:02 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> >
> > > If you actually
> > > cared about the lives of these people, you know what you should do.
> > > Otherwise, no more crocodile tears, please.
> >
> > You're trying my patience even more. You're like some superradical
> > version of Samantha Power, who is just so much more sensitive and
> > knowing than us poor selfish benighted fools, issuing pronouncements
> > from the comfort and safety of Ohio rather than Cambridge.
>
> Ohio, in my experience, is neither comfortable nor safe.
In my experience, Ohio is safe and comfortable, and so is New York City.
All I am saying is that we shouldn't shed crocodile tears when we actually don't give a damn about Afghan fixers or South Korean hostages. Many of them will die, some in part due to the doings of our governments, and we will live, safely and comfortably, and that is all there is to it. -- Yoshie