Something inside the whole picture does not seem right. I can see and have a point and I am trying to bring your attention to this picture.
I don’t know Omar Khadr the way you do but, like you, I know that he was a child soldier. What more I know about him for sure is that he didn’t kill an American citizen on the USA soil. He killed an enemy soldier because he defended his country on its own territory. He killed because he saw himself as a defender of Afghanistan. Other people normally act the same way when being invaded by the outside aggressors. Every country claims this right when facing a foreign invasion and nobody in this world questions this. He killed somebody who committed a heinous crime of aggression and killing of other people. Khadr should be left alone to live with no prosecution whatsoever. His case should be solved quickly with no further discussion.
Would you speak against those who openly admit responsibility for “making mistake” when killing his own fellow countrymen half a world away? Could you call a heinous crime something that we are now accustomed to live every day with when easily swallowing it with our morning sip of coffee and treat it business as usual? From the level of your office you could. Why have you remained silent for this?
Do you know that in the natural world, those species close to their living surroundings will be defending themselves and their offspring even against stronger opponent and predator? Do you know that in the natural world they normally win the fight? What are you fighting for and what are you trying to prove? What kind of rules of life will you teach the people around you? – your family, children, grandchildren, and people you represent? What life experience do you bring to politics to be a role model to others?
Would you call yourself a “heinous” killer when in self defence you kill those who enter your back yard, threat your household and your loved ones? It’s really a sinister thing to see you selling yourself so poor for what lays deeply in your conscience and you strongly believe is right.