Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Meanwhile in Afghanistan

The South Korean church volunteers being held in Afghanistan apparently aren't good bargaining chips.

The deadline passed a day after Afghan police found the body of a second hostage slain since the church-group volunteers were seized two weeks ago. A purported Taliban spokesman had demanded the release of eight militant prisoners, including some held by the United States at Bagram.

South Korea said it would send a parliamentary delegation to the United States to seek cooperation in resolving the crisis, and relatives of the hostages pleaded for help at Washington's embassy in the South Korean capital.

  Yahoo

Hey, that's an easy one. The hostages aren't even Americans, and it's not South Korea that has nukes. On the other hand, they are Christians, George.

As an aside, but not irrelevant, the South Korean government told these people it was too dangerous to go to Afghanistan, but I guess God told them to do it anyway. Back when we first invaded Iraq, there was a Christian guy where I worked who was packing his Bible and his toothbrush to head over there with a missionary group and convert some Muslims. And then things went sour PDQ. I never heard whether the group cancelled their trip or whether the guy at work just wised up.


....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.


1 comment:

  1. So where's Rev. Moon, King of America, in all of this? Or the Moon at the UN?

    (Sorry, I'm too lazy to actually try to find out.)

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