Why would anyone try to make Ms. Roush out as the one who is in the wrong, here? She is obviously the victim, as her daughters, Ms. Saga and her children.
NRO doesn't sound critical about Ms. Roush from this article.
http://www.nationalreview.com/murdock/murdock072502.asp Or this one from July 2002
http://www.nationalreview.com/dreher/dreher071602.asp "" Roush has been trying ever since to get her children back, with virtually no help from the State Department, which, in theory, is supposed to work for Americans. In fact, State has an appalling record of appeasing the Saudis in these matters, a fact that has been pointed out with prophetic outrage most recently by the Wall Street Journal editorial page and its editorialist, William McGurn.""
and
"" Let Congress recognize this for what it is: a hostage situation, perpetuated by the Saudi rulers, and abetted for 16 years by appeasing American diplomats. ""
and
""Congress should order State to deny visas to any Saudi government official until and unless Aisha and Alia al-Gheshayan, and indeed all American citizens held illegally in Saudi Arabia, are allowed to return home.""
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"" Americans should realize, though, that their own government is a great obstacle to a just resolution to these cases. As Ali al-Ahmed, the Saudi democracy activist who runs the Virginia-based Saudi Institute, tells NRO, "I'm amazed by the way the State Department has behaved in the Roush case, and several other cases. Is it the U.S. State Department, or the Saudi State Department?"""
or this one,
http://www.nationalreview.com/mowbray/mowbray022403.asp "" he head of the State Department's Bureau of Consular Affairs (CA), Maura Harty, is hosting an event at the Hotel Washington Monday with about 65 left-behind parents of children abducted to foreign lands. Harty sent form-letter invites to the parents in December, but the invitation list was missing the names of the two parents who State views as the biggest troublemakers: Patricia Roush and Thomas Johnson. According to an official in her bureau, Harty is trying to "send a message to all left-behind parents that you should not stir the pot."
Today's gathering is just the latest in a series of snubs suffered by Roush and Johnson. Roush, whose daughters Alia and Aisha were kidnapped from their suburban Chicago home in 1986 by their Saudi father, has persistently created headaches for State over the past 17 years. ""
re: don't blame the victim?
First, you ought to notice who is creating the victimization--and it is very often the victim. There is a streak of masochism in many women, sometimes it's a mile wide. Neurotic women; violent men--a beautiful love affair in the making. Hang around an ER for a few years, and watch the women come in ..."Make him stop hitting me. I love him. Don't blame him, he can't help it..."
How they love to involve bystanders in their melodrama: they feed off people who like to play hero on their behalfs. That's what's happened to NRO and Mrs. O'Beirne and Mowbray. KB is enjoying the rush of playing champion. Believe me, I know of what I speak. I've been made the fool, too.
I took a long while to read over Roush's website--don't know if it's still up, but she was quite open about her long and miserable marriage and how many times she took back her Muslim husband. She even followed him to SA and donned the abaya--she barely got her daughter out that time--he was threatening to keep them all there. But she managed to get them out--only to take him back again once in the US.
Roush was very critical of the first Bush for having better sense than to play her champion. Strangely, she let Clinton off the hook for eight years. Then Bush the Younger is in power, and she can start her silly "he's ignoring me because of Haliburton" nonsense. This is a woman who seems most upset about her daughters when there's a Republican in the WH.
I also have met a few blondes who have gotten the Sheik Complex. They get dazzled by the romance, then expect someone less self-indulgent to clean up their messes. What exactly should we do, declare war on SA?
Perhaps that might be a good idea for some other reasons, but I'm not lauching a thousand ships for Pat Roush's face. Uh uh. Watch her find another jewel to hook up with--these women are serial victims.
Mowbray enjoys his status for taking on the State Department. I appreciate his contributions. But he and O'Beirne are Roush's fools.