Free Shakil Afridi

[kandrathe]

I'm not disagreeing that he broke their law, but we shouldn't use and abandon our friends like this. We should stand up, and take responsibility for causing this situation, and be willing to correct it the best we can.

Okay, how? It doesn't sound like a problem with an obvious solution.

I would like our State Department to diplomatically make a deal to "buy" him out of prison, in return we maintain a cordial working relationship.

Also: It is not dissimilar to the Hmong situation at our exit from Vietnam. We should have foreseen that the NVA would target our "allies", but then again we hardly exited Saigon cleanly either. That was an outright war. In the end, we rescued most of the "boat people" and provided sanctuary for them within the US.

Pakistan is supposed to be on our side, and instead seems more intent on targeting their citizens who collude with the US to find terrorists. Chen Guangcheng most likely also actually did violate China's laws in his work to support the rights of the disabled and abolish state sponsored sterilization. There is the difference between a legal and moral obligation.