Was Bill Clinton's visit to North Korea worth the time, energy, and prestige? No way.

Slate by Christopher Hitchens | Aug. 11, 2009 (Opinion)

I call your attention to a small detail about Laura Ling and Euna Lee, the two American journalists who were wrongfully arrested, illegally detained, and then capriciously released by the crime family that controls the northern section of the Korean peninsula and treats all its inhabitants as slave-prisoners and all the neighbors within its missile range as hostages. Full Story »

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by James Canning - Aug. 11, 2009

Hitchens, who is well known as an ardent supporter of the idiotic invasion of iraq in 2003, argues that having Bill Clinton travel to North Korea is to reward kidnapping. The argument is not convincing, in my view. because the two jopurnalists had entered North Korea illegally and thus were properly subject to arrest.

Bill Clinton did the right thing in traveling to North Korea and this was a good move by the Obama administration. Perhaps Bill should be sent to Tehran.