Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Islamic Terrorists Trial In a Civilian Court

Moving the trials of the 9/11 Islamic terrorists to a civilian court in New York is grandstanding politics by Obama-Holder of the worst kind. It places New York and, for that matter, all potential United States civilian targets at much higher risk going forward. Al Qaeda and other groups win here from a propaganda standpoint as well as a future strategy standpoint.
1. From a propaganda standpoint, the 9/11 Islamic terrorists now:
(a) get a stage where they can denounce the United States and possibly recruit more Islamic radicals,
(b) possibly force the Dept of Justice, through rules of evidence, to reveal many tactics and technology used in fighting terrorism
(c) actually have a chance of being acquitted or at least getting a hung jury.
(d) string out the process for a decade of more, through numerous appeals, if they are found guilty.
2. From a strategy standpoint, Obama-Holder's message to Al Qaeda is now clear:
(a) attack unguarded civilian targets in the United States and if you are not a suicide- murderer, but one of the leaders or planners who convinces the suicide-murderers to kill in the name of Islam, then if captured you get treated with all of the legal protections of an American citizen with a chance of being found not-guilty.
(b) attack military targets and the attack has much less of a chance of success due to generally guarded and fortified installations and if caught then you get the death penalty in a military court with no chance of acquittal.

This seems to be either lost on Obama-Holder or, even worse, they weigh these downsides as not being as important as giving Obama-Holder the opportunity to grandstand for months or years about the civilian trials, getting many TV opportunities, and possibly as platform to further bash the Bush-Cheney regime thereby diverting attention from the huge failures of Obama's domestic economic policies and Obama's total lack of any accomplishments in international matters.
Of course, this action by Obama-Holder plays into the politically correct Obamaspeak which no longer acknowledges a war on terrorism or Islamic terrorists as existing.
Al Qaeda wins, the United States loses!

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