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Originally Posted by sky_driver
OK, first of all, my thoughts and prayers are to the family of the most recent American who was beheaded in Iraq. Now this is how I really feel, and if I upset anyone, then too fu**ing bad. You can stop reading my post now. I am sorry, but I can no longer feel anything for any American who continues to be there to "help the Iraq people rebuild their country".
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There are always people willing to risk death to help others. Take for example the two italian aid workers who were kidnapped. They were not making tons of money. There are red cross/red crescent workers there, and numerous other aid groups.
Yes, it is a risky thing to work under those conditions, but many of the foreigners working there are doing so becasue they can not make that much money in a reasonable time in their own homelands. It is a chance for someone to lift their family from semi-poverty to a level perhaps not possible otherwise. It's college money, seed money to start a family business, or maybe a down payment on a house.
There are many reasons to make that gamble. My father worked in Cuba during the missile crisis at the base at Guantanamo. Burns and Roe Construction company built a huge desalinization plant there. The Marines and Navy were on constant alert, the Cuban Army was massed outside for months.
That is how my father raised the money to make a down payment on our home.
They have reasons that are sufficient for them. But you've probably never gone to bed hungry, either, or not been able to afford paper to use in school. You might not understand their reasoning, but don't show contempt for the people who are working there.