Lara Logan: What was CBS thinking?

The question is, what was CBS thinking when it was decided that Lara Logan would go to Egypt and cover those roiling, intensely emotional demonstrations? Oh we know, it's terribly sexist to suggest that a women reporter shouldn't be able to go just anywhere she wishes in pursuit of the story. But older heads, both male and female, who worried about it before the fact must surely be harboring a lot of regret today. Maybe they didn't think Ms Logan was actually going to be in the middle of that alien powder keg. We have no way of knowing but maybe Ms Logan considers her terrible ordeal to have been part of what the new woman must face. Like death on the battlefield. Maybe.