Comments on: Clinton Successful in North Korea? Not So Much

By: Interested

Interested — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:40:19 +0000

and details that emerge now show it was no magical network of contacts, no act of great Statesmanship, no foreign policy smarts.

They were 2 reporters who went where they shouldn’t have been and were held as pawns in comfortable surroundings until the Great OB said okay and Clinton went on over.

Indeed, her worst complaint was that her rice tasted like ‘rocks’

Indeed, from the whole tawdry affair only one clear winner has emerged – an exuberant Bill Clinton – even if, according to an insider, ‘the joke in the White House was that the girls were safer in North Korea than on the plane going home with Bill’.

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links for 2009-08-05 « Tea and Politics — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:10:50 +0000

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By: Doomed

Doomed — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:16:05 +0000

Talking and getting results is always a good thing.

The question in cases such as these are what did the USA have to give up in return. We all know that NK did not give these two away for nothing. There is or was a price to be paid…we will never know the price but I sure it was not cheap.