I'll bet you he had some do-good naive streak and wanted to connect up with the 'Freedom Fighters.' And I'll bet you anything that his dad, in a year, is a strong conservative. He gets to see a bit of Reality in this, to bring up alongside his own 'noble Savage' thinking. It'll be interesting to watch. Kind of like Taliban John, raised by sop-brains.
You're on. That poor guy is going to cling to his lame beliefs with everything he's got. Otherwise he'll have to face the fact that the wishy washy liberalism he passed down to his son led to a horrible death.