John Podhoretz has a wonderful column on "the hug" between Janet Norwood and Safia Taleb al-Suhail in the Friday edition of The New York Post. Here's a sample:
But what made the moment especially meaningful was its symbolic force. It was impossible not to see the two women as indelible representatives of their respective countries — an American mother whose loss helped bring about an immeasurable gain in freedom and dignity for an Iraqi who not all that long ago was a prisoner in a torture chamber of a country.
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