The Conservative Soldier

News flash: Associated Press analysis actually gets it right. Unlike moronic American media outlets such as CNN (the Clinton News Network), hailing “Mission Accomplished” by former President Bill Clinton after his trip to North Korea.

Daniel Sneider, associate director of research at Stanford University’s Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, said the journalists’ release followed weeks of quiet negotiations between the State Department and the North Korean mission to the United Nations. Clinton “didn’t go to negotiate this, he went to reap the fruits of the negotiation,” Sneider said.

And the Wall Street Journal nailed it as well in an editorial entitled “Paying Kim’s Price”.

“The important question going forward is whether Mr. Clinton’s visit was merely the down payment Kim extracted from the Obama Administration for a potentially larger set of American concessions.”

As news cameras captured the triumphant stroll of the “pardoned” young female journalists toward a waiting private jet, with Clinton already on board, your intrepid Soldier asks: Are they really free? The compliant media called it a diplomatic mission. Bill Clinton calls it a “two-fer”.