On The Other Hand...
It's all a matter of how you look at things...
Is it mutual love or a ticket to American citizenship?
Take an attractive sixteen year old girl, give her a computer, don't monitor her activites and the next thing that happens is she becomes a run-away mail-order bride. She was going to convert to Islam, going to sign a wedding contract and her future mother-in-law indicated that (like a few other newly weds she knew of) there was every possibility she would one day be back in the USA with her new husband in tow. Which would be every mothers wish - to have her son safe and out of the path of danger from suicide bombers, assault rifles, and missiles in the West Bank. That's the prospective grooms mothers way of thinking...
But, on the other hand...
What do you do when you are the mother of a willful teenage girl, who obviously doesn't have a clue about how dangerous the world can really be? (Or how deceptive the people of the world can really be). Under the circumstances, this child needs educating and who better to educate her? A young woman who had been kidnapped in the very region that the wannabe bride intended to go, and who was held captive in a power play for ransom money and to make a political point. If I was this childs parents I would be sending a desperate plea now to Kate Burton to explain life in the West Bank region to their child. Burton is a humanitarian and by her own account will return to the region, due to the poor living conditions she saw there. Who better to talk to a young girl, than a young woman who has had some experience in the kind of life a foreign bride, in a war torn area, would encounter? I doubt seriously that even with Burton's passion for helping others, she would encourage a young girl to marry and live in the region.
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Is it mutual love or a ticket to American citizenship?
Take an attractive sixteen year old girl, give her a computer, don't monitor her activites and the next thing that happens is she becomes a run-away mail-order bride. She was going to convert to Islam, going to sign a wedding contract and her future mother-in-law indicated that (like a few other newly weds she knew of) there was every possibility she would one day be back in the USA with her new husband in tow. Which would be every mothers wish - to have her son safe and out of the path of danger from suicide bombers, assault rifles, and missiles in the West Bank. That's the prospective grooms mothers way of thinking...
But, on the other hand...
What do you do when you are the mother of a willful teenage girl, who obviously doesn't have a clue about how dangerous the world can really be? (Or how deceptive the people of the world can really be). Under the circumstances, this child needs educating and who better to educate her? A young woman who had been kidnapped in the very region that the wannabe bride intended to go, and who was held captive in a power play for ransom money and to make a political point. If I was this childs parents I would be sending a desperate plea now to Kate Burton to explain life in the West Bank region to their child. Burton is a humanitarian and by her own account will return to the region, due to the poor living conditions she saw there. Who better to talk to a young girl, than a young woman who has had some experience in the kind of life a foreign bride, in a war torn area, would encounter? I doubt seriously that even with Burton's passion for helping others, she would encourage a young girl to marry and live in the region.
posted by Is It Just Me? at 7:51 AM
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