No Sympathy for Lindh

Re “Lindh Team Offers List of Abuses,” March 23: Was this sob piece about John Walker Lindh commissioned and paid for by his loving parents? I am sorry, but I can’t find any sympathy for a man who was raised in affluence in beautiful Marin County only to go and join the Taliban, a regime that terrorized civilians, treated women as subhuman, destroyed artistic treasures and generally stood in opposition to every American value. Whether or not he was fighting with Al Qaeda, to me he is a traitor, and at the very least a misogynist moron, no matter how many PR firms his parents care to hire.

Laurence Hauben

Santa Barbara