It seems impossible not to be moved by this statement by Ling:
Impossible not to be moved except, perhaps, if you're a hardened Neocon Conservative with a worldview stuck in the Cold War:
But, since Bill Clinton has a hand in their release, someone's got to step up and naysay the effort, and predictably, that task has fallen to former UN ambassador and noted rage-walrus John Bolton, who says the "Clinton trip is a significant propaganda victory for North Korea, whether or not he carried an official message from President Obama."Thank you, John Bolton, for once again demonstrating the completely theoretical nature of Neocon philosophy. Not only does it not take into account in any way the two American lives at stake (let alone Euna Lee's young daughter with whom she was reunited) vs. some "propaganda" belt notch, but since there's no Iron Curtain or Eastern Bloc anymore, and Kim Il Sung is as marginalized as a tinpot dictator can be, that propaganda victory may be limited to his own state-run television system.
Go play your mental games with yourself, John. This is America. You know, give us your tired, your hungry, your falsely imprisoned.
Welcome back, Laura and Euna.
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The Big Dog's an expert at getting chicks to come home w/ him.
(ps: Is there anybody who takes John Bolton seriously about anything? I miss the days when he was at the UN screaming about how local diplos don't pay their parking tix.)
Netter,
We can't discount Pres BC's actions, and it was a victory, he got them home. Good job.
HOWEVER...
Any time there's a hostage / semi wrongful imprisonment situation for any American, are we going to be sending BC from here on out? Two things what BC did was great, what these two people did were stupid.
They should be very very grateful, and consider themselves very very lucky that the star struck Kim Jong Il was willing to listen to Clinton.
Now let's talk about what concessions we as a nation had to make to get these two people out.
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