[HN Gopher] Embedding with America's top hostage negotiator
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       Embedding with America's top hostage negotiator
        
       Author : gaplong
       Score  : 40 points
       Date   : 2024-06-07 20:03 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.vanityfair.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.vanityfair.com)
        
       | batch12 wrote:
       | Reposting the archive link from the flagged sibling comment for
       | those getting hit with the sign up wall:
       | 
       | https://web.archive.org/web/20240608185808/https://www.vanit...
        
       | adolph wrote:
       | This is a weird article. It editorialized for negotiations
       | stating "Russia alone. . . seems to aggressively 'restock the
       | pond' with Americans." But writes that claim after admitting
       | Venezuela holds a quarter of American hostages and later in the
       | article documents Venezuela's ongoing honeypot operation in
       | eastern Columbia.
       | 
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canouan_Airport
        
       | doctor_eval wrote:
       | Ugh it looked like an interesting article but the jingoism was
       | dialled up to eleven.
       | 
       | > To hear Carstens tell it, his career first took shape when, as
       | an 11-year-old in Spokane, he read about the Cambodian genocide,
       | learning how the world stood by as some 2 million perished in the
       | Khmer Rouge's killing fields. Raised in a Christian home where
       | the Bible was a staple, he was determined to make a difference in
       | the lives of the less fortunate. In time, he came to regard the
       | US Army as "the most successful human rights organization in
       | history when it comes to liberating vulnerable people."
        
       | dmurray wrote:
       | I've just had a great idea for an action/thriller movie.
       | 
       | The bad guys kidnap some VIPs, say some US senators, and make
       | some demands. They bring in America's top hostage negotiator to
       | deal with the situation. He brokers a deal giving the bad guys
       | large parts of what they want in an unorthodox way. It's revealed
       | then that the bad guys also kidnapped _his_ child and are
       | instructing him on how to handle the negotiations.
        
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