People Can Be So Selfish, Childish, Unreasonable, and Contradictory

On my regular one hour commute to work, I have an XM radio to occupy my time. I start off with Fox News to get the morning headlines, and if there is something important I stick with that. If not, I hit a variety of channels, including the comedy networks and a few minutes of BBC, as well as a SHORT listen to CNN.

This morning on Fox and Friends, they were talking to people who had just arrived at BWI (Baltimore-Washington International Airport) from Cyprus. Two of the three people I heard, two people from the flight, and the wife of someone on the flight, were critical and ungrateful. The wife said that it was the fault of the US that it took so long, and that they had to endure so much. Correct me if I am wrong, but didn't these people go there on their own? Didn't the US, at taxpayer expense, use military assets to get them to Cyprus, and then pay for a chartered flight back to the US?

I get so angry at the whining and crybabies that seem to believe that they have no responsibility for themselves. They think that someone else is at fault, and then someone else should correct it. I would have blamed Hezbollah for starting this, or blamed the Lebanese government for not extinguishing Hezbollah, or perhaps even myself for going to the most violent and unstable place on the entire planet. I sure wouldn't blame the people who actually may have saved my life, or maybe even saved me from months of torture in captivity.

The thing is, these people are probably the ones who say we shouldn't even be in that part of the world. Or that we oppress these countries, or that our military presence instigates violence. Yet they expect the military to be waiting offshore for them at a moments notice.

I am glad they are safe. I just wish they had a little better perspective on life.