You could almost predict the headline. “He’s a really good boy.”
That was the reaction by the parents of John Phillip Walker Lindh, 20, who is among the captured Taliban after the prison uprising.
But Walker [his mother] says she was shocked by her son’s statements of support for the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden. She says he had never expressed any interest in the Taliban or a any other militant version of Islam. “If he got involved with the Taliban, he must have been brainwashed,” she says. “He was isolated. He didn’t know a soul in Pakistan. When you’re young and impressionable, it’s easy to be led by charismatic people.”
“I’m proud of John,” [his father] says. “He’s a really good boy. A really sweet boy.”
Aren’t they always?
(Via NextDraft)
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