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What we need is for European countries to quit paying ransoms.
You want to know why Journalists get kidnapped? It's because they sell for a few million per head. This is one of the more profitable ways that ISIS and other terrorists fund their operations. If we want to stop the kidnapping, we need to keep people from paying ransoms. Take the profit out, and there's not much incentive to kidnap anyone.
On the surface, this does seem logical. But I wonder: if European governments are willing to pay ransoms while the American government refuses, why wouldn't a group like ISIS simply focus their kidnapping on Europeans and ignore Americans?
The issue may be a little more complex than what you suggest. Seems like the money is nice if you can get it, but there are political motivations at play as well, that are fueling these sorts of kidnappings and killings. IMO, of course.