I wanted to smack the first group of American whiners arriving at BWI airport this week. The American embassy wasn't responsive enough, the phone lines were constantly busy, their email to the State Dept. wasn't answered immediately, they had to stand in line too long to get on the boat out of Lebanon, gourmet meals and designer water weren't served on the boat, they didn't have pillows, and the ultimate horror -- they might be billed for their passage!
He said he was able to keep in contact via the Internet and they emailed him with instructions/directions to board the cruise ship out of Beirut.
I watched local (DC) coverage of the arriving evacuees at Thurgood Marshall (nee BWI) airport. Maybe I'm a racist or xenophobe, but it seemed the Euro-Americans were grateful to be home and noted appreciation of efforts made on their behalf. On the other hand .... those who appeared of Middle Eastern extraction couldn't condemn our government enough given the photo op.
I have become chauvinistic enough now to say the US has to stop this dual citizenship crap. They can become Americans like our ancestors did, renouncing allegiance to any other nation, or they can stay in that other country. We just cannot afford for them to have it both ways.