Hostages "Released"?

I cannot imagine being held hostage by a group of terrorists, who proceed to torture and murder one of my friends, get RESCUED by a group of courageous men and women who risked their lives for mine, and then take my story to the world, crediting everyone and anyone except my liberators.

Yet this is precisely what the Christian Peacemaker Team did after being rescued in a daring military raid early Thursday morning. This came after Coalition troops captured two men Wednesday night, one of whom provided detailed information on the whereabouts of the hostages, who had been held since November 26, 2005. The raid was planned and carried out, without a single shot fired, less than 8 hours later, resulting in the rescue of the three remaining hostages. The Christian Peacemaker Team proceeded to give credit in public statements to everyone except the America/Coalition military forces that actually rescued them.

Interestingly enough, the Christian Peacemakers Team has been in Iraq since late 2002 with the goal of investigating claims of Iraqi prisoner abuse at the hands of coalition (read “American”) forces. They say they want peace. They blame American troops for the violence in Iraq (read “their kidnapping”) and they want American troops to go home.

Maybe they should have gone home. Maybe the American troops shouldn’t have bothered capturing and interrogating (read “torturing” in liberal-speak) any suspected terrorists like the men that led coalition forces to the place where the hostages were eventually found and rescued. Maybe then, things would have been peaceful. Maybe the Muslim terrorists who kidnapped, tortured and murdered American Tom Fox (of the same group) would have decided out of their abundant good will to simply let the remaining hostages go free to preach peace elsewhere. Or maybe, just maybe, they would have gotten tired of the hostages and lopped off their heads. Who knows?

What an ungrateful, stupid, arrogant group of people...I am embarrassed that they chose to use the word "Christian" in their name.

I am equally mad however, about the news coverage. Most of the headlines read something like "Christian hostages RELEASED" and go on to use the words "Freed" and "released" throughout the piece. Okay, in order to be "freed" in the sense that I know it had to have been intended, the Muslim terrorists would have had to let the hostages go. That isn't what happened and it's a direct attempt by the media to downplay a good deed and a positive story that involves the American military. Why do our own countrymen (and I use the term loosely) hate the good that America does? Why do they just sort of skim over and give a pass to the TERRORISTS who kidnap, torture and murder innocent Americans? Apparently I'm stupid, because I just don't understand that mentality.