Well, that's another one of the things that bothers me too about this - what were they doing so close to the border that they were able to be snagged? Did they cross the border into N. Korea? Maybe, maybe not. But the case still stands that these two women were wholly unprepared to do a story so dangerous. It should be seasoned reporters with decades of experience and underworld and intelligence contacts that can save them in times like these, and not have to get Bill fucking Clinton of all people involved to kiss Kim Jong Il's ass and negotiate with a terrorist.
Will this inspire dictators, extremist groups who are considered terrorists to take more hostages? Probably.
I'm actually an somewhat of an isolationist - I think unless we are directly attacked by a foreign nation (I don't count 9/11 as being attacked by a foreign nation) we should not invade other countries. Maybe we should set an example and not be so militaristic.
And in the case of 9/11, instead of invading Iraq (or even Afghanistan for that matter - didn't we learn from Russia?) we just should have sat and gathered a lot of really good intelligence and then sent in an elite team to hunt and kill Bin Laden, and show his severed head on TV. Send a message.
But no. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and their coven of cretins wanted a big expensive war(s). Look at the money spent on and atrocities that Blackwater is being indicted for; it's scary. I wish we had never invaded either country.
And I still stand by the fact that Hillary has been essentially demoted by this whole N. Korea event and this could possibly ruin her career and any future aspirations to the presidency. Obama should have just swallowed his pride at the outset and made Bill Clinton his secretary of state instead of humiliating Hillary by sending Robert Gates and Bill Clinton to do her job and relegating her to do photo ops in Kenya while the big boys jerk each other off.
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Will this inspire dictators, extremist groups who are considered terrorists to take more hostages? Probably.
I'm actually an somewhat of an isolationist - I think unless we are directly attacked by a foreign nation (I don't count 9/11 as being attacked by a foreign nation) we should not invade other countries. Maybe we should set an example and not be so militaristic.
And in the case of 9/11, instead of invading Iraq (or even Afghanistan for that matter - didn't we learn from Russia?) we just should have sat and gathered a lot of really good intelligence and then sent in an elite team to hunt and kill Bin Laden, and show his severed head on TV. Send a message.
But no. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and their coven of cretins wanted a big expensive war(s). Look at the money spent on and atrocities that Blackwater is being indicted for; it's scary. I wish we had never invaded either country.
And I still stand by the fact that Hillary has been essentially demoted by this whole N. Korea event and this could possibly ruin her career and any future aspirations to the presidency. Obama should have just swallowed his pride at the outset and made Bill Clinton his secretary of state instead of humiliating Hillary by sending Robert Gates and Bill Clinton to do her job and relegating her to do photo ops in Kenya while the big boys jerk each other off.