Says Moussaoui. He's got a point on that. And, by the way, it looks like Rich Lowry has been reading my posts, or, more likely, we're just spiritual soulmates.
Update: Now Steyn also weighs in.
And the notion, peddled by some sappy member of the ghastly 9/11 Commission on one of the cable yakfests last week, that jihadists around the world are marveling at the fairness of the U.S. justice system, is preposterous. The leisurely legal process Moussaoui enjoyed lasted longer than America's participation in the Second World War. Around the world, everybody's enjoying a grand old laugh at the U.S. justice system.
Break out the ouzo bottle!
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A little counterpoint.
Why is this supposed to contrast with the posted story?
Well, not the perfect counterpoint, perhaps. What I meant is that the story of the poor Iraqi journalist decapitated by those "minutemen"
(as that fat guy from Hollywood calls them) serves as a reminder (at least to myself) as to who we are confronting here. After all the judicial circus with Moussaoui, it may be easy to forget...
At any rate, coming back to the central point I've been trying to make for a few days now -- anybody agrees with me that captured enemy combatants in time of war should be judged as such, in military courts, or do you think the OJ-like spectacle we've seen with Moussaoui is the way to go?
Derb chimes in:
Thank God the Moussaoui trial is over. I have never been so embarrassed for my country. The low point of the thing — and a low point for our nation in its accelerating slide to oblivion — was when that U.S. Navy Lieutenenat sniveled and blubbed on the witness stand while Moussaoui jeered at her — quite rightly, in my opinion. I expected Jimmy Carter or Oprah to show up at any minute. An American officer, in uniform, weeping IN THE FACE OF THE ENEMY! She should be court-martialed. Instead, I feel sure she will get promoted. ("If you emote, we must promote.") The trial transcripts must have been translated into Arabic, Farsi & Pushtu by now, and are being passed around among the terrorists as morale boosters, with much hilarity and Moussaoui-style jeering.
Judge Brinkema's closing remarks were typical of the whole sorry performance, and gave Moussaoui yet another opportunity to play the man — the only man in the courtroom. Does anyone, DOES ANYONE, think we're going to defeat Islamofascism by squirting clouds of this multicultural mush at it? The terrorists sure as hell don't. Does anyone think the enemy gives a fig for our determination not to "focus on hatred, bigotry, and irrationality" (Judge Brinkema). I wonder if you can win a war without deploying hatred. Homer didn't think so.
The New York Post described Judge Brinkema's closing remarks as "a tongue lashing." I would say that's about right. They have suicide bombers — and, any day now, nukes which they will use. We have wet tongues.
"When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, naturally they will favor the strong horse."—-Osama bin Laden. Yes, they will. We are doomed, doomed.
Have more ouzo.
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