I offer to you that this gal was a leftist with certain views when she went ti Iraq and furthermore that her views are very likely to be much different now after what she has actually seen first hand.
Many leftists will refuse to accept things until one of their own tells them.
It matters not how or why they accept the reality, it only matters that they do. This gal could help that happen for many people that, to this point, refuse.
Well, she may now realize that the terrorists really are actually dangerous and they don't make any distinction between the Americans who sympathize with them and those of us who despise them.
But she sure took a boneheaded route to find that out.
Nobody but a moron goes prancing around Baghdad like she did. I cannot understand why anybody would do that.
And she'd been doing it up until she got nabbed.