Hikers Deserve Scorn Not Sympathy

We have a new leader in the clubhouse for the title of "Person Currently Getting Our Sympathy Who Really Deserves Our Scorn."

One of the top news stories in the past week was about Sarah Shourd, one of three Americans arrested last year while hiking near the Iran-Iraq border. Iran finally released her, and now she's doing the U.S. media ciruit talking about her captivity and urging the release of the other two male hikers (her fiancee and their friend).

Here's the thing: When asked why they were hiking so close to an unmarked border in such a dangerous part of the world, she acts like it was no big deal. They'd been staying in Syria, and were looking for a place to hike, and other people hiked around there, and they meant no harm, it was just a simple navagational mistake for which they were imprisoned.

Really!?

First off, people deserve what they get when they willfully choose to go hiking in one of the most volitile and lawless places in the world. It doesn't matter if you weren't spying. Frankly, it doesn't matter what you were doing. A lot of people there want to kill Americans, pure and simple. And don't you think maybe, just maybe, if there were people hiking there, they were locals who knew what they were doing and where they were going?

Next, to make matters worse, our Sarah met with the Iranian President - and International Madman - Ahmadinejad while he was in New York City this week on a United Nations visit. Nothing like giving that idiot more publicity by asking him to release the others. And this was right after that douchbag gave a speech suggesting the U.S. orchestrated the 9/11 terrorist attcks. Note to Sarah - again, that A-hole wants to kill as many Americans as possible. We shouldn't even allow him in the country to speak to the United Nations, a liberty no other country would give him.

Finally, has Sarah or anyone else thought about the huge amounts of taxpayers dollars that have indirectly gone to freeing them? You're welcome, Sarah, you immature loser. Why doesn't she mention this when she's talking about all of the hardships faced because of her own stupidity?

Since she was reportedly living in Syria because she was "fascinated by the region" I wish she would just go back over there and stop sucking up any more resources from America. And after she gets a lucrative and very undeserved book deal, I'm sure she will! Oh, and I'm sure she'll use that money to pay back us taxpayers.

Sarah, this scorn is for you!