The American Hikers get 8 years in Iran prison!

@estherlou (5015)
United States
August 22, 2011 11:22am CST
Remember the 3 US hikers who were caught two years ago straying over the border into Iran? They were arrested for spying. One was released a year later on a $500,000 bail and returned to the US. The other two men have now been sentenced to 8 years in prison. My question is...why in the world would anyone from the US even WANT to go anywhere near that part of the world? It's too unstable! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44212736/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/?gt1=43001#.TlKAn13Uqt8
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Adoniah
@Adoniah (7513)
• United States
22 Aug 11
Haven't you noticed yet? Americans are just plain stupid! They think that they can go anywhere and do anything and the world will treat them as dignitaries because they think they are better than everyone else. You would think that by now they would have learned differently...
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Awinds
@Awinds (2468)
• United States
22 Aug 11
I don't know if the problem is stupidity - it's more like a lack of respect. We are taught that America is the best from childhood and that can lead to some disrespectful behavior of all things non-American...
Awinds
@Awinds (2468)
• United States
22 Aug 11
Eight years is just a bit harsh. But really - who in their right mind would go near that place? Isn't also kind of close to where the more radical Muslims are quartered? It wreaks of danger and desert. I hate so say it, but what were they thinking! Regardless, I think we should be doing a bit more to get them back. After some of the crap good ole' America has pulled in the Middle East there's no telling what may happen to those prisoners during the next eight years or so. Maybe we should initiate a travel ban for that area? To keep this from happening again? I suggest that because you just know there are going to be the idiots who read about this and suddenly get the urge to hiking over there themselves.
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bobmnu
@bobmnu (8157)
• United States
23 Aug 11
What these studenmts did was stupid and they had been warnned about the area they were hiking in. This is also a sign of the weakness of our country. We have no influence in that part of the world.
TheRealDawn
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
30 Sep 11
I wouldn't want to...
petersum
@petersum (4522)
• United States
22 Aug 11
All is not what it seems. You DO NOT stray over borders in that part of the world! It isn't like crossing between US states! If they crossed a border, they did it purposely. Guilty as charged!
instinctive
@instinctive (16)
• China
23 Aug 11
I think the key is the country, well, if the hikers strayed into France, Canada or British,It would be a opposite result. Iran is an unfriendly country to US.