[pollyannaish]

You may be absolutely correct.

I just think that we need to wait until she is completely out of danger before we can judge her statements.

If she continues to sing this tune once she gets home, that is another story.

[68skylark]

I just think that we need to wait until she is completely out of danger before we can judge her statements.

I like your comments. I'd just add that people sometimes take months or years to "process" a genuinely traumatic experience. Let's not be too quick to try to make Ms. Carroll into an enemy, no matter what she says. Let's keep the focus where it matters -- on terrorists who do crimes like this.

[MizSterious]

She's already "out of danger."

[LK44-40]

I just think that we need to wait until she is completely out of danger before we can judge her statements.

According to CBS Evening News, she is in the green zone and declining safe transport by the U.S. military. It looks to me that she has been an apologist for her captors ~after~ she was safe. Certainly, anything she says in the green zone is something she can be held accountable for.