I Don't Care About Natalee Holloway

It has to be said so I'll say it. If Natalee Holloway wasn't cute and white, there would be nearly this ruckus. Walk through any ethnic neighborhood in any major American city and you'll undoubted find flyers for missing folks of all age ranges. I don't blame Beth Holloway Twitty. She's doing what any loving mother would do. I certainly am more charitable to her position than that of the crazily anti-Semitic Cindy Sheehan. But Natalee herself bears some blame. She went got liquored up, possibly took some drugs and went off with 3 boys she'd just met in a foreign country. Any way you look at it, that's just stupid. Now, the Holloway family is trying to organize a boycott of Aruba. Crass as it may be to say, wouldn't have this energy been better spent teaching their daughter a little about the world before they sent her on a vacation to a foreign coutry?

Why should the people of Aruba who as a group, bear no blame for this tragedy, suffer just so Beth Holloway Twitty can have some closure? Why are US Government officials supporting her in this? As for myself, I'm just embarrassed about the way we are handling this. Besides the Gov, the media refuses to let this story go. It reminds me of that kid who got busted in Singapore for vandalism and President Clinton tried to intervene on his behalf. The most powerful man in the free world steps in so an American can be free to disrespect the laws of another country. How bad did that make us look? The USGOV barely gets involved if you get kidnapped overseas. As an adult, you are expected to bear some responsibility for the consequences of your actions. Natalee made an error in judgment and punched the big ticket. That's her mistake, not the people of Aruba's.

Natalee got caught up with the wrong group of boys. It happens everywhere. Some women are naive. Some are attracted to bad boys. The point is, this could have happened just as easily in most any U.S. city. It's sad. It's tragic and it happens everyday in America. Like it or not, the world is fundamentally Hobbesian and when we forget it, it makes up pay.