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Sure.
And then what should happen to our own tourism industry?

I'm willing to bet more tourists (as a percentage) disappear or die in the US than in Aruba. Girl gets murdered by scumbags in Aruba. I fail to see how all of Aruba is at fault.

I fail to see how all of Aruba is at fault.
Really? There's supposed to be law and order in Aruba-- that's something tourists prize. A girl is dead, and the criminals are running loose because they're Dutch. [You're not really comparing the US with its tremendous population and land mass with Aruba, are you? Apples and oranges, apples and oranges.]

Sure. And then what should happen to our own tourism industry?

I'm willing to bet more tourists (as a percentage) disappear or die in the US than in Aruba. Girl gets murdered by scumbags in Aruba. I fail to see how all of Aruba is at fault.

"All" of Aruba is not at fault, but the Aruban authorities are guilty of either criminal negligence and incompetence, or enabling a cover-up. They waited ten days before searching the Van Der Sloot kid's apartment, and then when criticised for it the Aruban Attorney General had the effrontery to go on television and try to excuse that incompetence by saying "we can't just go barging in like cowboys".

The proper response from the reporter (and everyone else) should have been: "Please explain just what in the hell cowboys have to do with the universally recognized standards of criminal investigation, one of which is that time is of the essence when gathering forensic evidence?

When she made that statement, weeks ago, it was obvious that the fix was in. All they have been doing since then is going through the motions and running out the clock.