OK, This I Don’t Get

The circumstances of Kim Seon-Il’s capture are starting to look strange indeed. The AP apparently had another tape of him from early June in which he gratuitously denounced America, Bush, and the war on camera, apparently of his own free will. The AP, at least, didn’t think he was being held against his will, and neither his employer nor the ROK government got excited about it.

No, the fact that he was misguided in his belief in a “middle way” with terrorists doesn’t lessen my sympathy for him and his family. He was obviously a brave, bright, idealistic, and immature individual who should have had the chance to grow up.

You Hani types–I’ll admit that I wouldn’t really find your terminal epiphanies amusing if you’ll admit that your glamorization of every evil has been proven to be sure suicide.