Monday, January 02, 2006

To blog or not to blog

I have been reticent to comment about the
(mis)adventures of Farris Hassan, the 16 year-old rich kid from Fort Lauderdale who jetted off to Baghdad for a little "immersion journalism."

I really don't want to add one more nanosecond to this guy's fifteen minutes of fame, but I've got a few questions of my own.

How, precisely, does a teenager get onto an international flight without parental permission? Did anyone actually look at this kid's passport? Didn't his age raise any red flags at the gate?

Who is going to pay for his military flight from Baghdad to Kuwait, or for the flight from Kuwait to Europe during which he was accompanied by a US official?

Does this poor little rich boy understand the risks posed to the the soldiers of the 101st Airborne who escorted him from the Baghdad offices of the Associated Press to the US Embassy? Did he think they would have nothing better to do?

Or does this kid think at all?

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