Perhaps we should forcibly remove more 12-year-olds from their homes, to military boarding schools paid for by American taxes, to teach them that Americans are good people.

How do you think his parents feel about this? Do you think they are likewise as kindly disposed towards us?

The irony is, if he hadn't been with people who were shooting at our soldiers, he wouldn't have received all of these benefits. The people who did not oppose the coalition, or who supported it, got to stay home herding goats, avoiding land mines, and dealing with the occasional revenge of splinter groups. There's a lesson there. Maybe not the one we expected to teach, but there you go.