BillyC Frees Journalists in North Korea

[Soxy]

Colbert's recent tweet:

 

so bill clinton is bringing two women home with him. what a surprise

Texts from last night had this gem on there this morning:

 

I'm pulling a bill clinton and going home with two hot asian women. I laughed.

[Nixon]

John Bolton is hilarious.

The point to be made on the Clinton visit is that the knee-jerk impulse for negotiations above all inevitably brings more costs than its advocates foresee. Negotiating from a position of strength, where the benefits to American interests will exceed the costs, is one thing. Negotiating merely for the sake of it, in the face of palpable recent failures, is something else indeed.

So let these two girls rot in N. Korea while we keep not talking to NK. That really worked out well on the nuke program. Also, it looks like NK never intended on keeping these girls. The "labor" part of their sentence was never enforced, they were never sent to the real labor camps that make Auschwitz look like a day at the beach. Probably because they wanted them to be presentable when they were released (not IF they were released). NK probably is playing this completely for the photo op. Didn't a similar thing happen with the crew of the Pueblo? The US signed a bulls*** letter, said it was a bulls*** letter and NK released the crew because they got a bulls*** letter and a nice shiny battleship out of it?

Edited August 5, 2009 by Nixon

[StrangeSox]

Conservatives quickly spun this into a negative.

 

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/08/05/...test=latestnews

[lostfan]

John Bolton is hilarious.

 

So let these two girls rot in N. Korea while we keep not talking to NK. That really worked out well on the nuke program. Also, it looks like NK never intended on keeping these girls. The "labor" part of their sentence was never enforced, they were never sent to the real labor camps that make Auschwitz look like a day at the beach. NK probably is playing this completely for the photo op. Didn't a similar thing happen with the crew of the Pueblo? The US signed a bulls*** letter, said it was a bulls*** letter and NK released the crew because they got a bulls*** letter and a nice shiny battleship out of it?

lol @ calling negotiations impulsive.