[Miss Marple]

Wasn't there a scandal over there concerning forced prostitution? I thought I heard clark's name mentioned. Was the UN involved?

I don't remember, but if it did happen, then it places a more interesting light on the President's discussion of sex-slavery at the UN yesterday.

[TontoKowalski]

Wasn't that an interesting little blurb... that the UN should take on the issue of slavery?

I immediately thought of the Christian slaves being held in Sudan, and the willingness of politicians and journalists to hush that up.

[twigs]

it places a more interesting light on the President's discussion of sex-slavery at the UN yesterday.

There was a very powerful article in this month's National Geographic Magazine on slavery, although it was about several types of slavery: debt, labor and sex slavery, I think it was. I was very moved by the article and I rarely am by those pieces. I assumed when I heard the speech that possibly Pres. Bush was moved by the issue too. And the very fact that the article appeared in a major publication could easily make it into a political issue.