Let's Be Simply Happy

...for the bloodless rescue of Ingrid Betancourt and her fellow captives in Colombia.

I confess I have what I guess is my own version of "missing white woman" fixation, the bane of cable TV. 

I feel especially terrible for women taken captive in political conflicts. 

The Two Simonas, Jill Carroll, Margaret Hassan -- all symbolized for me the way idealists suffer in wartime in an especially cruel and unjust way.

Betancourt, too, a reform candidate for the Colombian Presidency. 

So celebrate today her safe return (though I suspect her health is ruined, judging from the article), like that of the Simonas and Jill Carroll.  Hassan was murdered.

Now let's see Lori Berenson freed, please.