I'd like to make a few comments pertaining to the misinformation that permeates through this thread.
First, the F/O, as well as the CA, are both still employed and flying the line for AA today.
Second, these unfortunate individuals who made a bad choice that night, were also very evidently misled by improper reporting of the runway condition by Jamaican ATC which took part of the blame. As such, the two flight crew were accepted into the ASAP program and retrained to the line, standard procedure with the ASAP program.
While several on here are thumping their chests about how the powerful union attorneys got their jobs back, the truth is that the pilots were deemed acceptable by ASAP standards and were deemed retrainable. They did not intentionally (key word here) violate the regs, but rather fell prey into accepting a runway they thought would be within limits for landing, due to the misreporting by Jamaican ATC (runway was actually flooded, aka "underwater", not just "wet", most likely resulting in braking action fair to poor. although to be fair ATC probably did not realize just how bad it was.) At the time, the 737 was approved for 15kt tailwind landings in certain conditions, albeit with a bunch of cautions.
There is no doubt the flight crew screwed up, but rather than lobbing insults onto them and preaching about how "I would never do that..." perhaps it would be more prudent to realize that, under the right conditions, any one of us could be set up in a similar way when the holes in the Swiss cheese line up just right... and to remain vigilant against that happening, using the lessons learned from this unfortunate accident.