ISIS recruits and Minnesota residents Mohamed Abdihamid Farah, Abdirahman Yasin Daud and Guled Ali Omar had their appeals for lighter sentences denied by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Aug. 10 in Minneapolis .
President Barack Obama told us the Iraq War was a mistake. So if the U.S. can be wrong for starting and fighting a corrupt war but not be guilty of murder because it was a war, why don't these men get the same freedom? Why don't they have access to this forgivable process for participating in or just trying to participate in a corrupt war the U.S. grants itself?
Holding them accountable for their warring and then our government giving itself a mulligan for its corrupt warring: racism is what it is.
They each got 30 years for thinking about and then trying to go to Syria.
Why weren't their actions seen as a mistake? Why weren't they allowed to just go home like those responsible for the Iraq War did?
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How can war, all by itself, regardless of whether it is right or wrong, give the freedom to kill? And then only white men have access to his type of warring?
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision was pure, disgraceful, white supremacy.
Frank Erickson
Minneapolis
