West still fighting for the Ten

By Diana West
At this point, West is virtually unique among his military peers in his public commitment to seeing justice done — in this case, clemency — for the Leavenworth Ten soldiers and their families. When I spoke to him recently, West made that case quite dramatically, comparing the hundreds of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan, known killers of American troops among them, on whom America has bestowed both clemency and freedom, with the implacable refusal of the U.S. government to treat the Leavenworth Ten even half as mercifully. Having forgiven our enemies, the United States has no such forgiveness for the men who served to fight them.
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