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he Obama administration has faulted Malaysia for failing to do enough to stop the sexual and forced labor exploitation of women and children. The State Department's annual "Trafficking in Persons Report" on Tuesday put the Southeast Asian country on its list of top trafficking offenders. Repeat offenders on that list include North Korea, Myanmar and Fiji.

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Thumbs up to the Obama administration for recognizing Malaysia for its failure to curb human exploitation, resulting in foreign worker abuses, and for not protecting foreign refugees within its borders.

Human trafficking and abuses of all form is simply wrong and backward. There should be honest and educated law enforcement and the willingness to stop illegal activities in the community, wherever they may be.

But believers in Malaysia have failed, ultimately, in making a more sensible and important point in their religious rationale: that human exploitation is perceived as modern-day slavery and should be considered unacceptable.

It has been known for a number of years that some EU member countries have extended a visa waiver to Malaysia, regardless of its present-day unwillingness to do more to tackle its domestic human trafficking issues.

Edward K.

Jailing US journalists could prove costly--June 13, p. 6

Call me a dupe of the Commies, if that makes you happy - I really don't care at this point. Maybe all these years I have been wrong to argue that we can negotiate with North Korea; maybe my critics are right and the regime does need to be either totally ignored and further isolated or, in the worst case scenario, attacked. All I care about right now is getting those two American journalists out of that Pyongyang jail.

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Wow, he writes as if he stands right in the center of the universe. Now that one of his star students is in trouble, Tom is ready to leave the theories of his classroom and deal with reality and demand action and results.

When it was merely North Koreans suffering and South Koreans, American military personnel and Japanese being threatened, he was all too willing to experiment with thoughts of negotiating with the NK regime.