ABC describes the prison system in which two U.S. journalists will be held:
For years the left has been whining about the Bush administration’s gulag of illegal detention camps. Now that two U.S. citizens have been thrown into a very real gulag, the best many on the left can muster is some drivel about how Gitmo has undermined this country’s moral authority to demand that a criminal regime release from confinement two U.S. citizens who have committed no crimes and pose no threat. Here’s a video telling the story of one North Korean whose mother was hung in front of him, whose brother was shot in front of him, who was put to work at hard labor at the age of five, and who was at one point subjected to seven straight months of torture including mutilation. Yet none of this compelled him to escape. Instead it was hunger that motivated him. In contrast, U.S. soliders at Gitmo will force-feed prisoners who don’t eat. America’s detention of terrorists offers no grounds for a comparison to North Korea’s enslavement of an entire population of innocent civilians, and yet some just can’t resist the opportunity to posture.
