Somehow, I find speculation by keyboard warriors about what Jessica could or couldn't know about her rescue effort kind of amusing. Predictable, but amusing.
I noticed that Ronnie Raygunz cartoonist son didn't miss the opportunity to blame the hoopla on the feminist conspiracy. I wonder what conspiracy is responsible for fake letters to the editor submitted to small-town newspapers without the knowledge of the supposed authors?
The military PR machine needed a hero. As I said before, she's white, reasonably cute, and was a great vehicle for diverting attention away from real news and onto her and the hokey story they concocted.
Is she a hero? She doesn't meet Patton's definition, because she apparently didn't make any "poor dumb bastards die for their country." However, she did survive a pretty horrible ordeal.
As much as I hate to admit it, I agree with [Labret] (evne though he always remind me of a great line that the ventriloquist William Safire caused the puppet Spiro Agnew to utter - "nattering nabobs of negativism") - she's as much of a victim as a hero. It could be that her "lack of eloquence" is one of the attributes that allowed her to survive.
Some, for example, as articulate as you is likely to get shot a lot quicker.
And if you survived long enough to get captured ...
