Comments on: South Korean Christian hostage crisis: Day 24

By: Korean Hostage Crisis Day 25 Update at ROK Drop

Korean Hostage Crisis Day 25 Update at ROK Drop — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:06:45 +0000

[...] Michelle Malkin meanwhile asks where the human rights outcry over the hostage crisis is at. I just went to SHAmnesty International webpage and there was nothing on the Korean hostage crisis on their front page, but there is a big orange graphic about closing Guantanamo Bay right below the other big graphic about human rights in Darfur. Just another example why this organization has no creditability when its equates Gitmo with Darfur and can’t even make front page news of the hostage crisis. If anything deserves its own big graphic on the Amnesty International webpage it is not Gitmo, but this hostage crisis. [...]

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By: allie

allie — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:18:54 +0000

I had a sudden thought of this turning into another US Embassy hostage template crisis in that it will stretch into months. I pray it does not.

By: changjin89

changjin89 — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:46:54 +0000

Greetings runningonfumes: per your #11, what I “think” is that I made too many typographical errors by being at it late in the day! The “2000″ figure is especially egregious; for “swift and unheralded”, try 200, logistically maybe about three C-130s’ worth, surely within the ambit of the Korean Air Force. Even that number deployed in one province would soon make the criminal combinations regret their choice of Koreans as hostages.

By: runningonfumes

runningonfumes — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 04:57:38 +0000

(There is never a thought about the Korean government being flexible in the swift, unheralded deployment of, say, 2000 Korean Marines or Special Forces, to be withdrawn from palpably adding to the general peril the Taliban criminals must face throughout Afghanistan only after the safe release of the hostages…)

I love how you think! Bravo! I would love to see ROK special forces deployed now to deal with this issue: Death to all involved in this heinous crime.

By: changjin89

changjin89 — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 03:50:56 +0000

Sunday Greetings Mrs. Malkin and loyal comunity. Gleaning what is publicly available for news today concerning the hostages in Afghanistan does yield this from the Times of London, for what it is worth. Anybody with half a brain must have suspected the bus driver’s involvement in this from the start. The Afghan allegation about the Pakistani ISI may be predictable but it is also plausible given the ISI's chronic infestation at senior levels with unreconstructed Islamists. There is a very early limit of what can be expected from a Korean government under somebody of Roh Moo-hyun’s mentality. Mirroring this, the Korea Times English edition offer an editorial which imagines this can all be solved if only the USA will be "flexible". (There is never a thought about the Korean government being flexible in the swift, unheralded deployment of, say, 2000 Korean Marines or Special Forces, to be withdrawn from palpably adding to the general peril the Taliban criminals must face throughout Afghanistan only after the safe release of the hostages...) In the USA and Canada, you may be sure that in every one of in our thousands of Korean Christian congregations, prayers were offered up today for the safe return of our brothers and sisters. It may be that this effort has more bearing on the matter than any of the too-ing and fro-ing of which we may learn in the disparate parts of the media. Dear thanks to each and to all for your constancy in this trial of faith.

By: Schweggie

Schweggie — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 02:28:43 +0000

That poor mother…and all the family members of the hostages…what a grueling, never ending nightmare they must be living through right now. But the families of the remaining male hostages, I can certainly see why their anguish must be unspeakable. The Talimonsters could at any time make another move…

On Geraldo at Large tonight, after the coverage of the death of Merv Griffin, he covered the ongoing Britney saga, then a segment about whether or not a man who is suing 1-800-flowers for one million by sending a thank you note to his wife after sending the flowers to a girlfriend has a case, and then a story about whether or not there was a rape at the Playboy mansion…

I guess a hostage crisis in Afghanistan just doesn’t quite fit that hard hitting investigative template.

By: Playing Chicken With The Taliban | Political Vindication

Playing Chicken With The Taliban | Political Vindication — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 01:53:40 +0000

[...] You’re the president. Terrorists hold 23 of your citizens hostage. A deadline has passed and you find the bullet ridden body of one of your citizens. Terrorists hold 22 citizens hostages now. “Their demands are considerably fluid and not unified. The armed insurgents are divided into different groups and the hostages are being kept in different places,” you are told. Next deadline: tomorrow, noon. What do you do? What are your choices? [...]

By: runningonfumes

runningonfumes — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 00:27:10 +0000

These are South Korea’s finest — and the West (including, apparently, our own leaders)is unmoved by their plight.

By: runningonfumes

runningonfumes — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 00:26:16 +0000

The spinelessness of the South Korean government is nauseating.

By: calamityville

calamityville — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 23:53:43 +0000

Great point Dkian. Also, they might not vote for democrats so they are ignored.

By: puhiawa

puhiawa — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 23:42:38 +0000

We see the same thing in this country with the MSM and crime. Note the press’ interest in the Newark Murders and The Connecticut Home Invasion, but the press’ appalling lack of interest in the far worse Wichita Horror and The Christian/Newsom torture, rape,murders. These stories are OK only if the perpetrators are not black Americans. The same story line plays with Islam.

By: Dkian

Dkian — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 23:04:58 +0000

I think there’s something else. Asians in general, meaning Koreans, Japanese and Chinese, are not, in the eyes of the left, proper minorities. After all they do not play the victim, but rather study and work hard and manage to get ahead.

By: OldGuy53

OldGuy53 — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 22:46:47 +0000

The silence from the MSM just amazes me.
I guess since they can’t tie it directly to George Bush they have no interest.

By: mnmike

mnmike — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 22:35:54 +0000

Incredibly sad.