re: #65 Salamantis

Everybody here is focusing on how much they hate the UN. While I agree that the UN has more and more become a feckless and ignoble organization, I would like to see more focus on this successful tactic for obtaining hostage release, and suggestions of where else it might be effectively employed.

Gaza is one example; are there others?

Note however that the successful tactic involved using the women that actually needed the water. Unmanly at the very least. I can’t think of a parallel for Gaza.