...Is a horrible, terrible, very bad, no good idea.
I'm going to work to compile some good reads regarding this issue. My initial thoughts are that this will indelibly tarnish Obama's national security appeal for 2012 once people are exposed to the incredible circus this whole affair will generate. Plus the notion that there is technically a chance that KSM could go free is a nightmare and an embarassment. Yes, Eric Holder says "failure [to convict] is not an option." But of course that's a ludicrous thing to say. One doesn't have to strain to remember countless surprise jury acquittals.
Stay tuned for a more in-depth analysis of this whole affair and it how it allows us to pierce the underlying ideology driving the Obama admin's counter-terror strategy, if you can call it that.
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8 years ago
The purpose of a trial is to put us on the high ground. You don't respect our rights to live, but we certainly respect your right to a fair trial, and we confer upon you the same assumptions of innocence afforded to everybody including the Nazis in Nuremberg. Should you be convicted, it's because you're a disgrace to society and the rule of law, and you won't have the martyrdom of spending your life in prison "against the United States" for a just cause. Denying him equal rights would certainly help his case and terrorist recruitment, don't you think?
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