I don't think I ever expected to go unchallenged!
But I do resent the low blow about "my ilk."
I saw that picture of Mike Spann on the thread. I know what that means to people. I am more than capable of understanding his heroism and the heroism of his family and distinguishing it from Johny's traitorous and pathetic crusade. I do not wish to dishonor the memories of the people who have laid down their lives so that we can have America. I have no further desire to argue. Jihad-boy was certainly a traitor by the most common meaning of the word, but I think the point in which you and I differ is whether or not he was a dangerous or evil person. I do not feel I have enough evidence to conclude the latter.
The people on Death Row aren't either.
Thomas White, who studied Arabic with Lindh at the Yemen Language Center in San`a, Yemen's capital, agrees it would be good to keep him off the streets of America.
"He was well-cooked before he arrived" in the Middle East in 1998, said White. "There was not much critical thinking going on."
To be fair, I think there was one person in the article who thought he was 'nice.'
He wouldn't be the first polite killer we've known, though.