What is to be done?

In the post below this one I mused about what we could do to frustrate the murder of more Korean evangelists by Taliban brigands. Barring a sudden drop of actionable intelligence, I saw very few options save prayer.

JYB reader Dr. Weevil has a very interesting idea, a la Mel Gibson's Ransom: change the incentives.

The Korean government should offer a different sort of trade. They should immediately send 200 of their best soldiers (commandos, paratroopers, or marines) to Afghanistan to help the allies hunt down the Taleban kidnappers and killers. At the same time, the prime minister of Korea, preferably backed by opposition leaders, should publicly announce that for every hostage killed, he will send another 100 troops, that the ratio of soldiers sent to captives killed will increase if the surviving hostages are not released very soon, and that the soldiers will stay until every Talebani involved in the kidnappings and murders is either dead or in Guantánamo.

I think the Koreans are so timorous that they will disregard this advice. But it is conceptually brilliant: the risk to the Taliban increases with every additional hostage they choose to murder. If they choose to murder all the hostages, they will have succeeded only in bringing thousands of new PO'd infidel soldiers into Afghanistan instead of getting any money or good PR out of the deal.

The optimal solution for the Taliban becomes releasing the remaining hostages, and capping at 200 the number of additional hostile bayonets looking to slice them into putrid, goat-scented kimchi.

And meanwhile Rusty has something to celebrate in the cyberwar against the Taliban. Great, kid. Don't get cocky.