Lost and Found

I highly approve of the decision made by U.S. Magistrate W. Curtis Sewell in not allowing John Walker Lindh to be placed in the custody of his father (“Lindh E-Mails Unsympathetic,” Feb. 7). The father has shown that he did a lousy job of parenting leading up to this; why should he be trusted now? The father claims his son was just a teenage kid trying to find himself. Well, he found himself in the wrong place.

Erwin Blake

Palm Desert

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Why should the American people have to pay to support Lindh in comfort in prison? Let’s just drop him off in the mountains of his chosen Afghanistan, where he can struggle to eke out a living among the now-liberated people, who will view him as a pariah and treat him more appropriately.

Wayne C. Irwin

Northridge