Maybe on your coast, but here in the People's Republic of Washington, Corrie's old alma mater of Evergreen State College is our number one supplier of worthless hippie slime. They did a big to-do about her at their last graduation ceremony, she's a friggin' hero to these America-haters.
And apropos of the larger issue here -
When the news first arrived of Ms. Corrie and her lack of attention to basic safety rules around heavy earthmoving equipment (I used to work for a highway construction company, and believe me, she screwed up big time), I DID feel sorry for her, thinking she was just a misguided and naive child.
Then I read the follow-on stories about her upbringing, her burning the American flag and preaching hate to little Pali kids, her loony parents, and their cozying up to Arafat of all people. I don't feel sorry for her, or them, any more.
To me, these dyed in the wool America-haters who go abroad and preach violence and hatred are like vicious, rabid dogs. They may once have been very nice dogs. They may once have been retrainable, or could have been protected with a vaccine. But once they reach the point that we see with these people, they are so dangerous that we feel sorry for them at our peril.
We used to know what to call folks who went over to Nazi Germany, marched with the brownshirts, advocated the mass slaughter of Jews, and spoke against America. (Remember, the Nazis said all they wanted was a "true German homeland".)