It has been about a month, since the more than two-hundred
and sixty Nigerian school girls were abducted. In my last blog post I reported
the story, explaining the whereabouts of the girls, and how not many search
parties have been conducted to find the missing girls. But there has been some
hope in finding them recently. Many countries such as, (finally) the United
States have sent in support troops to aid in the search for the girls. Although
the US has delayed their search party and has finally sent them, they aren’t specialized
for a search. The group mostly consists of Air Force flight crew members and
security officers. For the time the US troops have been in Nigeria, there main
plan was to use manned and unmanned planes to patrol the grounds. No one is
still quite sure where the terrorist group is hiding, maybe it is too late to
find the girls, no one will know until we find any clues of them. Eric Schmitt
covered the recent story on the New York Times website.
He like most people feel sympathy towards the abduction of
the Nigerian girls. His article goes over the heart-wrenching story and any
recent advances in the search. He details the problems with the search,
including the lack of helping countries, the Nigerian President doing
absolutely nothing, and some use of old ways of searching to find the girls. An example of using old ways of
searching would be driving around in a car with binoculars, while they use
these simple and old ways of searching they don’t look to the obvious. We are
in a technological era where we can use drones to search, why not use them. The
US is the only current country using this technique. Schmitt makes the reader
frustrated about the situation, hinting that the search has been pathetic so
far.
I do agree with Schmitt, there hasn’t been a real enthusiasm
in finding these lost girls. I do feel frustrated, at the people that are
handling the situation, and at the Nigerian president. Good Luck Jonathan has
been too nonchalant for such an urgent situation.
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