Well, let’s see if “Jimmy Carter II” can screw up this Iranian hostage situation as bad as Jimmy Carter I did his.
There have been too many examples of leftist “journalists,” “diplomats” and “tourists” in recent years, in places like Colombia, Peru and Iraq who get themselves “kidnapped” by guerrillas and handed back for princely ransoms and concessions for me to assume these people are not in cahoots with the Iranians.
Does anyone remember this incident back in 2000 when Gaddafi’s Libya managed to get a bunch of their citizens somehow captured by the Islamist Abu Sayyaf guerrillas in far off Philippines and paid a princely sum for their return? Did anyone besides me smell something funny about that?