The Trap

Kate Snow interviews former journalist Amanda Lindhout and the undercover agent who spearheaded the international manhunt for the person responsible for her 2008 kidnapping and torture in Somalia. Originally aired on NBC on January 13, 2019.

Hard to listen to without blaming the victim.

The victims in this suffered immensely without a doubt. However, hearing of the cost of a young woman’s wonder lust to everyone else in this story is a first world problem that generates very little sympathy from me. I once wondered around my home country telling all I was orphaned so that my bad decisions didn’t become my parents problems. The world is a wonderful and dangerous place that you should not go to unless you’re prepared to be accountable for every step and misstep taken.

Having said all that, I would be more than willing to pull the trigger in the firing squad on her kidnappers.