Many Americans were shocked to learn that John Walker Lindh stepped out of an Indiana prison a free man on Thursday, after 17 years behind bars. Dubbed the “American Taliban,” Lindh spent his teenage years in California’s Marin County but ended up captured in Afghanistan as an enemy combatant in the early months after 9/11. In 2002 he accepted a deal in which he pleaded guilty to providing support for the Taliban. But as understandable as outrage might be, this is Memorial Day weekend, and we do well not to let Lindh overshadow...

Source: Wall Street Journal May 24, 2019 23:15 UTC