[JimRed]

What was he doing there in the first place? My sympathy level decreases when people do really stupid things and end up hurt!

[caww]

I really hope the family resists any further TV or interview appearances now. They are in a distraught frame of mind as they only learned a week ago his condition..finding then just this week it was far far worse than imagined.... None of us can touch the level of pain, questions, and shock of all this... which even the father has said they are still in...not to mention what they must face ahead.

It's not hard to sympathize with their plight...but one can do so understanding also the foolishness of the decisions made to enter an extreme hostile country known for severely torturing and killing it's own people.....with a full house propaganda machine of relentless hatred and blame against America and of arresting and detaining Americans for bargaining chips for over 50 years.