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08-06-2016, 12:15 AM
Wall Street Journal Editorial Page : Friday August 5th , 2016
Note : The WSJ is owned by " News Corp ." The same company that owns Fox News .
" President Obama often seems to reside in his own private Idaho
on foreign affairs . So it was no surprise that at his Pentagon press conference Thursday he forcefully denied that his Administration had paid $400 million in cash as ransom in January for the return of five Americans in Iran ."
" We do not pay ransom for hostages, he said . We didn`t here and we won't in the future , precisely if we did we'd start encouraging more Americans to be targeted . "
" Mr. Obama with his talent for imagining a world that he would like to exist , may even believe that Iran released the hostages for reasons other than the cash the U.S. delivered ."
" If Mr. Obama is right that he paid no ransom , then how des he explain that Iran has taken three more Americans as hostages since those January payments ? An unhappy coincidence ? "
" What matters to American credibility is what the mullahs of Iran believe . And it`s obvious they believe that arresting and holding Americans in Iran is a useful way to extract money and concessions from the United States ."
Note : The WSJ is owned by " News Corp ." The same company that owns Fox News .
" President Obama often seems to reside in his own private Idaho
on foreign affairs . So it was no surprise that at his Pentagon press conference Thursday he forcefully denied that his Administration had paid $400 million in cash as ransom in January for the return of five Americans in Iran ."
" We do not pay ransom for hostages, he said . We didn`t here and we won't in the future , precisely if we did we'd start encouraging more Americans to be targeted . "
" Mr. Obama with his talent for imagining a world that he would like to exist , may even believe that Iran released the hostages for reasons other than the cash the U.S. delivered ."
" If Mr. Obama is right that he paid no ransom , then how des he explain that Iran has taken three more Americans as hostages since those January payments ? An unhappy coincidence ? "
" What matters to American credibility is what the mullahs of Iran believe . And it`s obvious they believe that arresting and holding Americans in Iran is a useful way to extract money and concessions from the United States ."