I know it's frustrating, but it's not so much the terrorists that bother me, they are animals and there is no reasoning with them. It's the people who flood the streets of Manila protesting their government to bow to the terrorists demands that scare me. The terrorists see this, and they know that they have a chance to turn a nation around, so they keep taking more lives. These people don't realize that as soon as they bow to the demands, more lives will be in danger.
I gotta say though, I am proud of how the American hostages have acted. They've always been calm and collected, and they haven't shown fear on the videos we've seen. Sadly, that wasn't the case with the Korean guy a few weeks ago. It makes it so much more effective for the terrorists to get them to plead for their lives.