As an American citizen, after trial,
he has the right to a cigarette and a blindfold.
Posted on 12/04/2001 12:06:08 PM PST by veronica
It's a crazy place... I swear there were so many totally mentally screwed up kids there who were about a few fries short of going insane due to clueless parents, moral relativism and too much free time and lack of parental supervision. If you've ever seen the movie "Bully" it totally reminds me of the lifestyle of a lot of people I knew. These were rich white kids too which was the scary part.
Then leave him alone with about a hundred taliban prisoners.
As to renouncing his citizenship, I'm sure the state department will have a record of his demand. Otherwise, he is just a US citizen waging war against the government of the United States, and should suffer the consequences of doing that. Our founders enumerated the death penalty for the most heinous of those cases of treason, and it seems to me that this instance is in that category.
That's who this administration was in communication with... Abdul Haq. The Taliban themselves were more interested in dealing with the Chinese, with whom they have a rather toasty relationship. The Taliban, being largely influenced by Pakistan, were a dead-end to us, given our warming relations with India, Pakistan's enemy... and cooler relations with China, Pakistan's friend and also India's enemy. with China building Paki and Afghan infrastructure... communications and power facilities in Afghanistan, roads, military items and ports in Pakistan, the US was not in tight enough to accomplish anything with the Taliban. Futility.
It was unlikely any serious progress was to be had from dealing with Taliban, except perhaps to get US companies in- and through them, US agents- who could then recruit locals and seek info on Al-Qeada and bin-Laden himself. But China was paying good money to keep that from occuring, I think, even assuming we were seriously considering it. Hence, the increasing relations with the renegade types like Haq, and Afghan old-government organizations in Britain... where serious conversations were beginning to pick up.
This is not about any "war fever" or that this dirtbag didn't show the right amount of patriotism; he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the Taliban and participated in a conflict where his side killed U.S. personnel. He said in his own words that he supported the attack on 9/11. He fought with the enemy against the U.S. -- what part of all that do you find confusing?
But I think we need to look a little more deeply into the matter. Walker did not join the Taliban on September 11th and he could not possibly run to the Northern Alliance to give himself up a couple of months ago, otherwise I think he would have been shot either by his friends the Taliban or the Northern Alliance.
That lame excuse doesn't wash. It's a long way from Northern California to Afghanistan, by way of Yemen and Kashmir and Pakistan: this dirtbag was making his choices all along the way, and he consistently chose to side with extremist groups that intended to do harm to the U.S. and it's people. Don't try to make it sound as if he just walked out of his suburban home and suddenly found himself holding a Kalashnikov that was pointed at our guys. He made his choices, several times, and the consequences will follow.
What should really concern everyone, is how many US Citizen in the USA are supporters of The Taliban and Al Quida.
Don't worry, we haven't forgotten about those.
These are the people you have to really worry about, no uniform, no long beards, no I love the Taliban badges to identify themselves. They could be policeman, firemen, military (Timothy Mcveigh), Nuclear scientists, Airline pilots (does not need to break down the cabin door), fighter pilots (look out nuclear plants), subway station managers, hospital doctors, football stadium security personnel, the list could go on and on. So we should concentrate on what could effect us, not some 20-year-old that decided to become a Muslim and fight for what he believed in.
"... fight for what he believed in", eh? You think that's somehow noble of him, don't you? We'll certainly bear in mind that there are terrorists in our midst and keep an appropriate vigil wherever and whenever possible, but somehow I don't think you'll want us to do much about those either. We'll keep our eye out for the 'sleepers' in this country, but that should not stop us from dealing with this traitorous puke in the meantime.
And before we say he is a traitor for fighting with he Taliban, it was not to long ago that US government and oil businesses were in serious discussion with the Taliban to have the pipeline go through Afghanistan.
He absolutely is a traitor for fighting on the side of the enemy today. The fact that they were not always our enemy does not absolve him of guilt; we are at war with the Taliban, today - right now, and Walker chose to fight with them against us.
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