Don't get me wrong -- I'm definitely concerned about the suffering that happens in foreign countries, and I think that people should be aware of it. Say every

Don't get me wrong -- I'm definitely concerned about the suffering that happens in foreign countries, and I think that people should be aware of it. Say every American was upset at N.K.'s horrible treatment of prisoners. So what? What's going to happen -- the U.S. would need to go through China before it could touch N.K. And bombing a country on humanitarian grounds is a little absurd. But if every American were upset about the penal system, or about "3 strikes laws", or prison rape, the problem would be solved almost right away (indeed, American complacency and populism caused some of these problems in the first place).