[August]

Motivation for ones actions might be a partially mitigating factor but it's certainly not an excuse. There is a vast difference between protesting a war on a college campus and hanging out with the enemy just down the street from where ones countrymen are being held captive in horrific conditions. I think the Islamic terrorist comparisons are quite apt. Nothing they have done is any worse than what the VC and NVA did routinely yet were an American actress to pose with ISIL fighters on weapons used to kill her countrymen the nation would be outraged and justifiably so.