but when you send your children (or allow them to go) to a shit-hole country, where an apocalyptic earthquake occurs, and your children go missing, and your government seems a little too occupied with other things to find said missing children, maybe you need to take a deep breath and have a nice, hot steaming cup of shutthefuckup.
Our government sent troops down there to help. It didn't send them down there on a personal mission to find your kids. If they find them, that's bonus. If they don't, well, that wasn't their mission.
Would I be crazy upset if it were my kids? Hell, yes. Would I be demanding that the government find them? Probably not so much, because I understand the mission.
Not that I would have advised any child of mine to go visit Haiti. Jeebus. *shudder*
Beware mission creep. We sent troops down there as humanitarian aid, not as detectives.
Sounds reasonable to me. I wouldn't allow my kid to visit that shithole.