We cannot win the war without the will to win

My wife and I protest every Saturday against the vicious, cruel and, in my opinion, treasonous actions of General Mattis against the Pendleton Eight. A young Marine recently thanked each of us for our demonstrations, stating, “You [the demonstrators] are helping all of us . Pendleton base police have also been affirmative.”

If the Pendleton 8 are flight risks, why are they held in solitary confinement and not allowed to talk with each other? Flight risk can be eliminated by confinement to the general jail population. Confining the eight to solitary confinement for six to...