Whatever the attractions of giving criminals “nowhere to hide, whatever the consequences,” the consequences cannot be ignored when the criminals are heads of state. The policy of never negotiating with terrorists cannot be scaled up to state level when hundreds of thousands of lives are at stake.
无论让犯罪分子“无处藏身，不管引发什么后果”听起来如何诱人，当犯罪分子是国家领导人的时候，我们不能忽略后果。在数百或数千条生命危在旦夕之时，不能把绝不和恐怖分子谈判的政策扩大到国家层面。