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He didn't know that this was dangerous? The military should now "be responsible" for saving his bacon?
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You damn straight its not their domain. He walked in their, its his responsibility to get out. The US never intended on helping out every single person who got in to trouble, its been a favor for its citizens. Once your off US turf, you're part of someone else's world. Their world, their laws. SO as any half-educated person could tell you, you cant expect the same protection. He knew this, and he did (willingly) cover the news in the middle east, so it is his fault. He knew what the fuck he was doing, he got his ass into trouble. Back off, dave, Im just expressing my opinion.
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Uh, except that they can get places that the military can't, and they have played a big role in gathering information to hunt down terrorists (like the reporter that bought the 2 al Qaeda computers for $1,100 of his own money, then handed them over to the government). Yeah, NO reason to be there at all.
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They do not have any logical reason to be there, other than to be a pain in the ass and get themselves into trouble. There are certain people who can handel pressure, and people who cant. Our friend Daniel Pearl cannot handle this pressure, the dude with the computer could. And if they are so damn good at diggin up shit on our enimies, why arent they working at the fucking Pentagon? Then the military would be obliged to help them. And besides, its not like our generals are sitting on their asses in front of the tv watching to find out where to drop the bombs. Our military can think on its own, the media need not help.
Im not advocating that we ditch all our overseas citizens, they just need to fucking behave and not get themselves into shit. The US has its priorities elsewhere.