Government that works for America, must first work for Americans

I am glad for Laura Ling, Euna Lee, and their families that North Korea released them after President Bill Clinton's visit this week. Media analysts have a field day with subtle acts of international diplomacy such as this, looking for the hidden meanings and trying to sort out winners and losers. But there are very few cases where the best interest of a few individual Americans should be sacrificed for the "greater good" of America, and this certainly was not one of them. Lost in the current context of big government plans, such as "reforming Health Care" and "Creating Jobs", is the fact that the first job of the American government is to serve individual American citizens - and this is surely an example of that happening.