What an utter mess this whole debacle has become. I loathe this polarized political landscape we're in practically everyone is so quick to find the inconsistencies in their opponents positions but refrain from being able to acknowledge their own.
The only small victory I can see from this is the release of the two Americans. In a humanitarian way, one can argue, their release would be worth any cost. After all, how can you measure the worth of human lives?
The damned thing is, this did come at a cost, and I don't think it is worth cheering about as many on left are doing.
The two women were captured on assignment from Al Gore (their employer) to do a story (not on global warming surprisingly) and end up imprisoned with a sentence of 12 years. That's terrible. It was a totally avoidable predicament, and in order to solve it, the Stalinist tyrants wouldn't take anything less than some face time with Bill Clinton.
The advantages Kim Jung il and his ilk get is to use the meeting as justification of their illusory power and dehumanizing strangle on their own people.
Two Americans being released is something to be grateful for, but only the freedom of millions of Koreans will be worth cheering about.
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