The American Taliban Walks Free

Lindh served 17 years of a 20-year sentence after he was captured in 2001 fighting in Afghanistan … on the side of America’s enemies, people committed to America’s destruction. It used to be called TREASON.

John Walker Lindh — the so-called “American Taliban” — has been released from prison, a move Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared “unconscionable”.

I applaud the Trump administration for opposing this in the strongest terms. But otherwise, we live in morally inverted times.

The bad guys are given excuses and even rewarded for being bad. The good guys are spat upon, told “you didn’t build that”, are blamed for crimes against them (e.g. Obama blaming Americans’ “Islamophobia” for 9/11), and all the rest.

I am sick of it, and a lot of others are too. But we seem powerless to translate these rationally valid emotions into policy.

My benevolent sense of life tells me evil is impotent, provided the good and the rational stand up to it with relentless force. But my observation of reality shows that in today’s world, the good guys are afraid to assert themselves. President Trump is a rare exception, and is labeled a freak by many for it. That’s what gives evil, like that represented by the American Taliban, all the undeserved power it gets.

Lindh was a snowflake before his time.

John Walker Lindh walks away scot-free for crimes that should have landed him life in prison, if not the death penalty. We wonder why America is not great. When a country isn’t safe, it cannot be great. When millions seem to think their own safety is neither deserved nor necessary, there’s some kind of horrible moral inversion going on. It frankly makes me think of suicide, where self-preservation gets converted into self-destruction.

One wonders what’s next: Will John Walker Lindh run for Congress and win? Maybe even for President, as a Democrat? It’s not impossible in these insane, absurd times.

The sickest part is that millions would vote for him.