I agree Ideal08,
I am the son of a retired Navy man, so my heart definately goes out to those families. Yeah, they are hostages. Becuase of the ramifications, they are playing with words like detainies.
My hope and prayer is that they will be back on US soil by weeks end. China has nothing to gain from holding them. They want to join the WTO (which we could block), they also want to host the Olympics (which I hope we block), and they are worried about us giving arms to Taiwan. So all they would do is to agitate an already tense situation.
For the record, I do believe that Bush was wrong when he conveyed that they were our opponents and not our partners. While there are major issues with them, I believe that you get more with diplomacy than a cold war stance.
Peace and Love
MN
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