I also think its madness when the Army risks live soldiers to recover the bodies of dead ones. Yet...a lot of soliders stongly support this policy. Go figure.
Rescue, sure. But ransoms are different. There is a clear rule. Do not pay excessive ransoms, because that merely encourages more kidnappings. This ransom is excessive.
It isn’t risking the lives of soldiers going in to save one of their own; it is a surefire sacrifice of untold numbers of soldiers and civilians. No corpse is worth that. No live person is worth that.