Excuse me but...

[Undertoad]

<i>John Walker was just in a room of undesireable people.</i>

This is a peculiar and telling understatement. From the accounts I've heard, he was in a flooded prison basement (tw's "room") of Taleban and possibly al Queda (tw's "undesireable people"), who were armed, resisting, and conspiring to kill (tw's "just in") US forces.

I'm not willing to try and convict him on the basis of what little we know. But what little we know is pretty damning.

I think he's a pathetic case, a combination of youthful energetic idealism and pure stupidity.