My first thought when I saw that Jill Carroll had been released by her captors in Iraq this morning was "Thank God." Then, watching the freed Christian Science Monitor reporter talk about how well her captors treated her, I thought "This woman has full-blown Stockholm Syndrome" (the psychological state where a hostage sympathizes with their captor, as an unconscious coping mechanism.) But at the end of the news day, I have not heard one reporter or commentator on cable news make this point (and if I'm wrong, someone please correct me.) It's important that the media take this under consideration, so the public can understand why this brave, by-all-accounts-wonderful young woman is seemingly sympathetic to the monsters who killed her Iraqi driver, Allan Enwiya (above right with his son) and threatened to behead her, and brutalized her and her family so profoundly. There is, quite literally, more to this story.
