The debate over how the U.S. negotiates with terrorists who have taken hostages has been a really sore point with the Obama administration, and Huckabee just got that question. This Lawrence Wright piece in The New Yorker covers in depth (very in depth, it’s about 20k words!) the struggle behind the scenes by various families to save their children — all of them died — by trying to semi-circumvent the U.S. policy on negotiating with terrorists.
