A Comment About
I’ll Give You Dozens of Terrorists, You Give Me One Journalist, OK?
July 12, 2009 - 5:59 pm
Meryl
2009-07-13 18:02:26
12.Brian Dunn
My comment on Ms. Saberi’s predicament didn’t have to do with a desire to “blame her”…but a desire to stop seeing her presented as hapless victim/innocent bystander.
Maybe that aspect of the story was more apparent here in the upper Midwest because of her “hometown story” over which every print and TV journalist slobbered and to which they tied yellow ribbons, elevating her almost to heroine.
When American citizens, witting or not, help the cause of terrorists, it should be ok to note it and perhaps try to raise the general intelligence of ex pats–”don’t be stupid overseas since that might end up being useful to our enemies”.
