Kidnapped WSJ Reporter: Your thoughts?

[MaggieL]

Originally posted by dhamsaic
You're retarded, verbatim. I can't believe I just read that shit from you.
"Their own damn fault" my ass. I'd like to see you claim that after your mother or wife or daughter or "female friend" got gang raped for walking down the wrong alley, you fucking idiot.

This is the same riff we heard from you about the drunk driver who was shot trying to break into a house where he didn't live.

"What if it was your daughter?" Well, it wasn't Verbaitm's daughter, nor was it mine. It was an adult US citizen who, with his eyes open, and being well-paid for it, decided to cover a war from inside the war zone, in a country where kidnapping and assasination are routine political operations.

"Daniel Pearl didn't know any better"? That's just plain silly. He's 38 years old. He's the South Asia Bureau chief for the WSJ. He was trying to get an interview with Mubarik Ali Shah Gilani, because he thought Gilani was connected to Al Quaida, and specifically to the Richard Reid shoe-bomb attack.. He didn't know that this was dangerous? The military should now "be responsible" for saving his bacon?

The guys who put the grab on him say they're going to shoot him unless all the Pakis who ran across the border to help out good old Mullah Omar and got their butts locked up are turned loose again to raise more hell. Now they've blinked and extended the deadline, probably because they've figured out that it's Not Going To Happen, and that they've just added themselves to the antiterrorist hitlist, (or been moved up it if they weren't there already). The military and the CIA will probably do what they can to save his ass. The bad news is there isn't a hell of a lot that it makes sense to do.

Pearl took a big risk playing for a big prize, and crapped out. Why do you fly off the handle when people end up facing the consequences of their actions? What is that about?