Who are these people?

It never ceases to amaze me what comes out in the media months or years after it should have been publicized. The latest version of this phenomenon concerns the three hikers who were arrested by the Iranians and who have now been let go after payment of a huge ransom (which the Iranians call bail). Two of the three hikers were living in Damascus at the time of the incident and the third was just visiting. When they were finally ransomed and released, the hikers made a plea for release of political prisioners in the USA. These are folks who are stridently anti-American, part of the hate America First bunch on the left. Through all the hoopla about obtaining the release of these people that fact seemed never to come out. It should not have lessened the efforts of the government to secure their release, but the irony of these people being rescued by the very country that they so despise is certainly newsworthy in my opinion.

You have to wonder why this never came out.