Obama's Next Hostage Crisis

The captain is not the only American hostage held by hostile entities. WSJ:

North Korea seized two American journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, last month on the Chinese border and says it intends to put them on trial for "espionage." Iran also uses hostage-taking as an instrument of state policy, including the British sailors seized in Iraqi waters in 2007, American academic Haleh Esfandiari the same year and, most recently, American journalist Roxana Saberi, whom the Iranians also accuse of espionage and who is now being held in Tehran's notorious Evin prison.

Tribune story today on Saberi.

The case for reclaiming our sovereignty on the seas. NRO.

Related post: We are the World.