Some salient points from Charles Krauthammer:'This is all quite mad even in Obama’s terms. He sends 30,000 troops to fight terror overseas, yet if any terrorists come to attack us here, they are magically transformed from enemy into defendant.The logic is perverse. If we find Abdulmutallab in an al-Qaeda training camp in Yemen, where he is merely preparing for a terror attack, we snuff him out with a Predator — no judge, no jury, no qualms. But if we catch him in the United States in the very act of mass murder, he instantly acquires protection not just from execution by drone but even from interrogation.' Read the whole article http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZWI2MGE2YTE4MzM4M2QyMTE5ZWE0OWI0Y2E3OTZiMGU=When this moron was dragged off the plane, he should have been taken straight to GITMO.
Charlie might just be onto something here...
I don't recall ANY of those enemy combatants at NUREMBURG brought over to AMERICA for trial and afforded all the SAME rights as a flag-waving, bona fide US citizen...do you?
Furthermore, since he was NOT IN UNIFORM, he SHOULD be handled like a damn SPY....and we used to HANG those nasty little buggers...or at best, try them before a MILITARY TRIBUNAL.
Obviously, someone in D.C. is not paying too much atention to history...so maybe we might just wind up REPEATING it...AGAIN.
But hey, that's only *my* opinion.
Good post, Tim.
Doug, how do you square the circle thatwe are legally obliged to blow him into the next world while he's training to be a terrorist, but the moment he actually carries out that training he becomes a "criminal"?
My question would be, when is ok to kill him? Do we have a DHS checklist for that?