John Walker Lindh was a 'scapegoat,' not a traitor
(NEWSER) - With Osama bin Laden dead, it's time to release John Walker Lindh—the notorious "American Taliban" captured with Taliban forces in Afghanistan just months after 9/11—says father Frank Lindh in the New York Times . "Like Ernest Hemingway during the Spanish Civil War, John had volunteered for the army of a foreign government battling an insurgency," says Frank Landh, adding that John wanted to help Afghan civilians from attacks by northern warlords, not fight the United States. "His decision was rash and blindly idealistic, but not sinister or traitorous. He was 20 years old." More»
