Jill Carroll: Lame Duck Hostage?

From CNN:

Abducted American journalist Jill Carroll appeared in a video broadcast on Kuwaiti television Thursday, urging the U.S. government to meet her kidnappers' demands.

On the video, Carroll says she is OK.

"I'm here. I'm fine. Please, just do whatever they want. Give them whatever they want as quickly as possible.

She has joined the ranks of other hostages whose original deadlines have passed. The kidnappers are playing out their diminishing chances of getting anything in exchange for her. One might term her a "lame duck hostage." May Hashem have mercy on her.