Posted on 08/04/2009 6:04:32 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
Now that all the hoopla and nonstop CNN 24/7 type celebrations and TV interviews and book deals will ramp up over the release of two liberal Democrat California-based freelance/Al Gore journalists from communist North Korea, based on a Bill Clinton secret deal and eventual flying to North Korea to apologize and legitimize the dictatorial regime--developing nuclear strike capabilities and exporting said terror--I say "hold your horses", as we have important unfinished business. I would expect the MSM to gloss over these so I raise them here.
While we are on the topic of apologies, which the Obama Administration delivered through Secretary of State Clinton and then her husband yesterday visiting the belly of the beast, the United States of America is owed a clear, succinct, written or verbal formal apology by those two journalists.
Their actions and foolishness in getting too close to the North Korean border if not crossing it all together has had the defacto effect of hijacking the foreign policy of this country in a critical area of the world. To just gingerly arrive in Los Angeles with nary a word of how remorseful they are at the extreme inconvenience they have cause the United States, must not be allowed.
B. Reparations
Al Gore or whomever associated with these journalists should pay ALL COSTS connected with their rescue, with nothing being billed to the US taxpayers. This should be monitored closely by an independent auditing agency on behalf of the US government.
3. Travel Ban
The released women, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, should have their US passports confiscated. They do not own those passports. They are the property of the United States Government lent out of convenience and not as a right. They should be prohibited from any international travel for five years--or until they grow up, whichever comes first.
4. Congressional Hearings
Congressional hearings should be opened to discuss specifically just what Mr. Clinton discussed with Kim Jong il (if any sensitive policy issues were broached) and to what extent the White House sanctioned this.
5. Transparency
A full report should be made of their capture, witnesses such as camerman subpoened if necessary, to get to the bottom of what happened.
Hold the confetti and Larry King, we need facts and action and lessons learned. This is a serious undermining of American Foreign Policy and National Security, as well as an insult and inconvience to our close allies in Seoul and Tokyo by two naive and careless young Americans. People should not get off lightly for such a self-centered imposition.
Ping!
Did they have beer? Where was the school girl Hillary?
Not to mention the Mighty Bent One's kipmujo carousing last night in P'yang, no doubt. $1000-2000 at least right there.
I was hoping we could trade Al Gore for the girls.
family friend Wally Yang said the Ling family had "done everything they could, while respecting the North Korean government, to try and get Laura home." He predicted that Ling would remain a journalist. "Despite this terrifying experience, I can't imagine that Laura would give up her passion to tell stories that otherwise wouldn't be heard."
The whole episode makes me gnash my teeth. The “girls” are Algore-brand fools, not journalists. Our government allowed these young women to manipulate our foreign policy relative to a loose cannon with nuclear weapons. We played right into the hands of the NoKos. Bill Clinton, of all people, is picked to rescue two young women. The NoKos get what they want, did you see the grinning photo of their Dear Leader, and the Obamoids look like idiots — but they’re representing our country. The girls return to widespread media acclaim. There are banana republics that could have handled this better. I think I am going to be sick.
Grab an American while you can! Easy pickings! Good money!
COunt on it if you got freed from NK prison I think to safe to say everybody been party on that beer charge to Taxpaper
1) MSM and Dems will claim that those women are traumatized victims, who need our unlimited emotional support.
2) Live broadcast of tearful reunions to drive the above point home.
3) They would say there is ‘urgent need’ to prevent this kind of even from happening, and we should address the ‘root cause,’ which is that US and NK are still in confrontation. U.S. would be urged to start engagement in exchange fore nominal token gesture by NK on nuclear issue.
And yet watch the US MSM gloat about how "wonderful" this is (of course it is for them and their families--NKorea is hell on earth) but they will gloss over the immense costs to American national security and our US troops in the field in South Korea and Japan for instance. I rate those men and women as much more important in my book than a couple of Al Gore journalists.
Concur!
I am, however, very glad they are out of that hellhole.
That’s about the size of it.
For sure, if they had been remanded into a camp 10 days after sentencing, as per NK law, they would never have been heard from again because they would have seen too much for the Norkies to again allow them out of a concentration camp to relay details to the outside world. Those two idiots had better kiss US soil at Los Angeles and badmouth the living daylights out of North Korea for at least 10 years nonstop, if you ask me.
It is absolutely humiliating for a major power, and is also read as a big embarrassment for the United States within an Asian Power context.
Does anyone else out there smell a rat?
Making out like a pensioner shopping for bargains on pantsuits.
However, given how badly the Obama regime (I won't call it an administration anymore.) has already trashed America's reputation around the world, and especially in Asia, I am more or less numb to the consequences of Beezlebubba’s brown-nosing of the Norkies. (Interesting pejorative for the NKs, btw. First time I saw it.)
I guess I am just so hard up for anything that resembles good news, that I will take the fact that these women are free and be thankful for that.
Although I also believe they need a good swift kick in the ass for ever getting themselves in the position to begin with.
I disagree.
By in large, Americans are stupid[See who we elect: R’s & D’s] and they will do stupid things like these journalist.
However, America loves it’s citizens. Our country sends a former Pres to return it’s citizens safe.
No other country will do that. We rescue mountain climbers who do stupid things, even putting ourselves in danger.
That is who we are. If you wanna be upset at Clinton and the journalist, so be it.
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