...what does that make Barack?
I await your answers, my liberal friends. And please show your work.
Here’s a better question: What would it take to get Barack Obama to ever admit he’s made a mistake, that he was wrong? As Rich Lowry points out in his latest column:
Sen. Obama maintained that we “compromised our most precious values” in setting up “the detention cells of Guantanamo”; that Gitmo and the military commissions represent “a legal framework that does not work”; and that Gitmo is a terrorist recruiting tool. It is to this ineffectual, terrorist-recruiting system that violates everything we hold dear that President Obama now looks for swift justice in the matter of KSM.
One might think that this turnabout would cause Obama and Co. to reconsider their harsh denunciations of policies they have made their own. Judging by Holder’s strangely combative press conference announcing the KSM decision, however, they’ll never admit they were wrong — just stymied by a foolish Congress reflecting the backward views of Americans unenthusiastic about high-profile terror trials in their backyards.
And do you recall ever being lectured to/complained about by a sitting Attorney General before? Yesterday Eric Holder spent his “Want Crow With That?” press announcement attacking the American people and complaining that we wouldn’t shut up and obey his demand that KSM be tried “in New York—IN NEW YORK!”
I don’t oppose giving KSM and Co. a civilian trial because I’m scared of what might happen in NYC—although the $1 billion price tag for Holder’s show trial is a legitimate concern. I oppose civilian trials for the 9/11 terrorists because they aren’t civilians.
They are enemy combatants. They didn’t blow up the Pentagon so they could steal a stealth bomber and sell it on the black market. It was an act of war from Islamist warriors fighting for a political cause. As foreign fighters waging illegitimate war against America, they aren’t entitled to the same protections as American citizens who commit crimes.
Timothy McVeigh deserved a civilian trial in a US court, and a proper civilian hanging. KSM does not.
It’s so glaringly obvious, and Obama’s position is (was?) so indefensible that all they can do is insult us. Holder has no defense, and he knows it. That’s why he didn’t offer one.
"The truth is something [Warren] probably prefers not to confront. Harvard doesn’t come calling just because you’re a smart lawyer and a terrific teacher — not with Warren’s modest, Oklahoma upbringing and non-Ivy League education. She is not your typical Harvard professor. At a certain point, when the law school was under pressure to promote diversity, she represented a three-fer: a great lawyer with a national profile, a woman, and a minority, at least by virtue of family lore. "
-- Joan Vennochi
