He slipped badly when he blurted out the truth: "They killed their best friend."
Yes --- I think so --- he sounds far too sympathetic to those who cut off his own son's head --- yet he's certainly capable of lashing out --- but strangely he lashes out at Bush and Rumsfield --- and his son wasn't even in the military or over there except to be there on his own.
Also agree that the father slipped badly when he said the people who killed his son didn't realize that they killed a friend.
I saw the interview where he said this and then went further to say that GWB and Rumsfeld were the ones responsible for his son's death and that Al Quada is probably almost as bad as they are.
Convoluted, to say the least, that he would say that the people who butchered his son were only almost as bad as GWB and Rumsfeld.
I know these types. The grey beard radicals who have never really grown up. They are stuck with an early 20something mindset. Due to dumb luck many of them prospered in spite of themselves due to the strange dynamics of the economy of the 1970s. Although debt financed and reckless, they benefitted from the massive run up in home prices and of course the stock market between the time they got out of school and the late 1990s. As they reach their elder years, they are strongly reverting to their youthful selves, part of it is refusal to accept the harsh realities of the 21st century and part of it may be the cumulative impact of an epicurean lifestyle possibly including drug use (or at least psychoactives prescribed for psych issues) and plain old onset of senility.