Let's cut to the facts here and dispense with the superficial dismissal of a third-rate intellect. Lynch was ambushed, fought back, was captured, injured, very probably tortured, freed by a miracle and incredible bravery on the part of the Iraqi who found her and the people who risked their own lives to come to claim her, and this pinhead takes it upon herself to cast aspersion because the color of her hair and her skin make her inconvenient for Orr's pathetic, outmoded excuse for a political and cultural theory? Too damn bad.
I know quite a few people like Deborah Orr. These live pinched, sordid little lives, and are as incapable of recognizing simple virtues such as courage and self-sacrifice as a dung beetle is of appreciating the Milky Way. Those who wallow in this intellectual mud must smear anything that seems clean, wholesome, real, because they know in their hearts that they are none of these and cannot stand the thought of a world in which their own inadequacies keep them from the first rank of the deserving. "Professor" Orr is beneath contempt.