Summary # 2 T. Burns

In the essay "Kidnapped in Pakistan: The End of American Ideals?" Hady Amr writes of his close friend Ayesha and the kidnapping of her brother, Imran, an American citizen that was kidnapped in Pakistan. Ayesha and her family did not want to take advantage of Hady Amr's relationships he had developed while working in Washington D.C. over the years to get the government to help with the locating of the brother at a higher lever. They chose not to because "she felt that the chances of negotiating her brother's release with criminals, terrorists-or both-were higher if the U.S. government, loathed on the local scene, was kept out of the picture and if local channels handled the matter." His take on the situation is that many are to blame due to a "severely damaged reputation" that America now has after the actions that were taken in the following of 9/11. Now America is a distrusted country rather than a trusted.