Thursday, July 03, 2008
The Rescue
Yesterday the Colombian government staged a daring raid on a rebel FARC hideout, freeing Ingrid Betancourt and eleven other hostages -- including three Americans.
They'd been held captive in the jungle for five years by a bunch of dirty, gun-toting thugs, so this has got to be the best day of their lives, and it's wonderful that they are back with their families again and that the effort to free them went so well.
The background details of the operation haven't been made public yet. But since the raid was spectacularly successful, we can assume that no one from the Bush administration was involved with its planning or execution.
