Things usually work out well for white people

While I'm glad that the Harrisonville guy held in Dubai was reportedly released, I can't claim that I lost a lot of sleep over the subject.

Also, I'm wondering if he's going to pass on any of the cash he made from the business trip over to the saps who took up his cause. Thing is, while the whole "support the troops" things makes sense to me to a certain extent . . . I just refuse to have much sympathy for Halliburton employees or other military contractors because I figure their high pay is part of the high risks they take . . . Very much like dating a hot broad -- they're usually crazy but who needs a loyal woman with a face like a cather's mitt anyway?

Still, the fact that the dude's family sold his case to the local media as if it was some great injustice or of any importance to life in this part of the world was just another example that news of white people in trouble trumps any other concern facing this community.

Now that he's out alive I have no problem saying that I couldn't care less whether he lived or died and unless you're getting a check from Halliburton then you're sucker for believing anything different.

And as far as the family that's soon to be weeping for joy at their son's return from his work at a company that has been described as "war profiteers" by more people than just crazy hippies: The family's actions were reprehensible given that all they really did was try his case in the Kansas City media and depict the courts of Dubai as corrupt and illegitimate because they're run by brown people . . . This is probably true but that's not my point.

What's important here is that a so-called human interest story was turned into propaganda and once again, in very much the same manner as Dick Cheney, a Halliburton employee earned the goodwill and support of the populace yet provided no benefit to them and did so with the complicity of the media.