Hard not to get emotional, honestly. Kudos to Clinton.
But no, North Korea did not score any diplomatic points. Shut up.
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OK, I'm the grinch here, but now that they're free, I have to say that while they were in NK, I checked out Laura Ling's 2005 report about Haiti (on the Vanguard site) and she's no journalist. I was appalled at the amateur "reporting," the half-truths she spouted (instead of reporting that Aristede, the democratically elected president of Haiti had been ousted by thugs and "escorted" out of Haiti by U.S. Marines, she said he "left Haiti and went to Africa.") Her work was shallow and self-serving; she talked incessantly about how much danger she was exposing herself to. I couldn't be happier that she and her colleague are free, but I'm not buying the image of the intrepid truth-seeker. Sorry.
Oops, Haiti video was on Current (not Vanguard). Here's the link:
http://current.com/items/76276702_haitis-hotzone….