Imo, that's unfair. I don't think she realized that she was dead, no matter how hard she tried to cooperate with that scum. The Italian man, otoh, knew he was dead.
Being 100 percent Irish, I know about wishing things away, and praying for intervention from God.
Perhaps. Was she captured before or after Ken Bigley debased himself on multiple videos and then got beheaded anyway? If before, perhaps you're right. If after, she didn't have much of an excuse...Westerners kidnapped by these animals always end up dead once their usefulness is exhausted, after making a couple of "please, Mr. (President/Prime Minister/Grand Poohbah), withdraw the troops and leave these people to practice The Religion of Peace(tm)!"
Now I wonder, will this stiffen the spines of the people in the rest of the world to the bloody work that must be done to eradicate this scourge, or will they lapse into the same weepy, mawkish "oh it's so unfair" sentimentality that they did with the death of Ken Bigley?
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