Posted on 11/13/2009 2:50:05 PM PST by Mount Athos
The Obama administration has taken a giant step in its march to throw in the towel in the war against radical Islam. On FoxNews this morning, Peter King said of the decision to try the soldiers of al-Qaeda — who by their own account have no country but their cause — as civilians “may be the worst decision by a U.S. president in history.”
It certainly is. It sends a signal to terrorists everywhere to attack civilians.
The administration is justifying its decisions on the grounds that because the 9/11 attackers targeted civilians they should be tried as civilians. This makes no sense unless you are a Democrat who believes that the “holy war” that Islamic jihadists have formally declared on us is no different from the acts of isolated individuals who have decided to break the law. This is the approach to the war on terror that John Kerry championed in 2004. Now that Americans have had the poor judgment — the suicidally poor judgment — to make a leftist their president, this is the strategy our nation is set to pursue.
The decision to try the jihadists in a civilian court is also a decision which will divulge America’s security secrets to the enemy since civilian courts afford defendants the right of discovery. It is also a propaganda gift to Islamic murderers who will turn the courtroom into a media circus to promote their hatred against the Great Satan — a hatred shared by their apologists at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the pro-Castro Center for Constitutional Rights who have pioneered the campaign against Guantanamo and whose influence in the Obama Administration is pervasive. (BTW, The newly appointed lawyer for the president is the husband of Obama’s recently departed Maoist communications director Anita Dunn.)
Finally, this move continues and enlarges the refusal of the President and the American Left to recognize that:
1. We are in a war that has been declared on us — in which we, in other words, are the victims.
2. That the war is conducted by religious armies whose war is inspired by their reading of the Koran.
3. That the number of Muslims who support their war plan is in the tens of millions
4. That they are aided and abetted by many Islamic governments and by the international Left.
November 4, 2008 ... A Day that will live in Infamy...
He does not care what you think, “He’s the President.”
The administration thinks that terrorism is a police problem...complete with reading Miranda rights to captured terrorists.
I fear we will be hit again...big time...we’ll see what happens with the folks in Washington then.
Hope not, but it’s becoming more likely.
That's what they've been doing. I'm not sure what the author thinks would change if this is handled another way.
We will lose count of the worst decisions made by this president and his administration.
I suspect that Obama and the members of his junta believe that the anger of the Islamic world will go away as soon as we abandon Israel. So they aren’t worried about the war that the jihadists have declared on us because, as soon as the opportunity arises, they will throw Israel under the bus.
Not that that would be the end of Israel, but even if it were, the jihadists will not stop until either they are defeated or their rule is consummated throughout the world.
Our government has been taken over by people who know nothing of history.
It’s just too bad a crowd of irate New Yorkers
don’t storm the courthouse on the first day of
the trial and drag him to Ground Zero and hang
him. Save our nation the trouble of an expensive
trial, after all we’ve got the cost of two
new buildings to consider.
Someone may need to remind Holder & Company that the 9/11 conspirators also attacked the Pentagon - hardly a civilian target.
Jeez, and I was beginning to think Obama was anti-decision.
This is NOT about bringing the terrorists to justice ... it’s about bringing down America. FUBO and Holder are NOT on our side
I wonder if the democrats, who I thought were Americans too, will ever wake up and impeach this SOB before he completely destroys our (their) country.
“may be the worst decision by a U.S. president in history.”
I’ve yet to see a good decision out of this president yet.
Each one seems to top the last.........
And once again Obama aligns himself with the enemy.
Not granting a defense request for an new venue would be absurd.
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