Kabar,
You are nutz. Savages did this to Lara. She didn’t do this to herself. I do sympathize with her.
When did I ever say that she did it to herself? I do believe that she took unnecessary risks by dressing the way she did given the circumstances and the region. I lived 9 years in three Islamic countries. You don’t make yourself a target needlessly. Logan is a tough, experienced reporter who knew the risks going in. Her gender is really irrelevant to me.
Personally I feel for her. But she was a news babe and she put herself on the firing line, in a place that has proved extraordinarily dangerous for MALE journos, and this is what happened. Why rape? Humiliation. Dominance. So I feel for her, but have no especial outrage. I save that for the American service men and women who have suffered similar fates. REPORTERS put themselves there for dubious reasons—I refuse to glorify them when it goes bad. She wasn’t there to report-she was there to create news. She did.