wow

Still trying to get my head around the fact that former President Clinton negotiated the release of two American journalists from Kim Jong Il. Personally, I was pretty pessimistic about an early release for those two, because let's face it, Kim Jong Il is known to be an egotistical, sadistic, crazy dictator and capturing two Americanas who would have exposed the real little-seen North Korea must have put a big canary-eating Cheshire grin on his face.

What does this mean? That Clinton has a gift for negotiating with crazy? Or crazy isn't always so crazy? Maybe the key was that Clinton said this was a "private" mission while Kim is under the impression that Clintong is representing the leadership of the US? Apparently there were "exhaustive" talks. Whether it was a ruse, charm, reasoning, (or some combo of any of it)--that had to be difficult to keep that up.

Hmmm. So curious to hear more details...