CNN has picked up the story of the American GI who deserted during the Korean War. His wife, who was abducted from Japan and taken to North Korea in the 70's, returned to Japan several weeks ago. But her husband can't join her in Japan because he might be extradited to the US for prosecution as a deserter. He's now elderly, ill, and possibly facing his last days. Japan has requested the US government pardon him. But that doesn't seem to be happening. We wouldn't want to appear soft on the elderly, after all.

The crime of desertion apparently has no statute of limitations. But child molestation does. A judge last week threw out charges against another Catholic priest because too much time had passed since the alleged dozens of rapes were committed. Damn good thing that priest wasn't supposed to be at war while (allegedly) raping those children. Truly the repeated raping of a child pales in comparison to the heinous crime of not killing North Koreans on behalf of South Koreans.