That video appeared Thursday on a jihadist website that carries videos of beheadings and attacks on American forces. In it, Carroll told her father she felt compelled to make statements strongly critical of President Bush and his policy in Iraq.
Her remarks are now making the rounds of the Internet, attracting heavy criticism from conservative bloggers and commentators.
In fact, Carroll did what many hostage experts and past captives would have urged her to do: Give the men who held the power of life and death over her what they wanted.
"You'll pretty much say anything to stay alive because you expect people will understand these aren't your words," says Micah Garen, a journalist and author who was held captive by a Shiite militia in southern Iraq for 10 days in August 2004.
Notice how, once again, people who wouldn't dream of putting themselves in harms way as did Carroll are full of "heavy criticism" for what she said and did to save her life.
ETA: Jane expands upon that little observation here, with particular reference to Jonah Goldberg, poster child for chickenhawkery.
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