By Micah Halpern
I've Been Thinking:
No one should be surprised that Khalid Sheik Mohamed and his cohorts are using their trial to advance their own agenda.
Of course that is what they are doing. The United States presented these ultimate thugs with a stage and with an open microphone.
Did the powers that be in the super power called the United States think that after nine years in prison KSM would be rehabilitated, that he would suddenly respect the institutions of Western liberal democracy and humbly submit to its august power. This is the same man who masterminded the 9-11 attacks and beheaded Daniel Pearl because of what the Wall Street Journal symbolically represented.
The delusional decision makers, those who determined that an open trial was an appropriate forum, should be ashamed. They should be reprimanded, charged with incompetence for putting 9-11 victims and families through an unnecessary and pre-ordained ordeal, for subjecting them to the language and actions of the men who have now twice desecrated them and their loved ones.
This was the moment the terrorists were yearning for, it was another dream come true.
In the eyes of the terrorists the only way it could have been better was if they were given a totally public trial in civilian court.
There were celebrations across terrorist networks as reports circulated of their comrades-in-arms spitting, not only on the graves of the deceased, but also in the face of the US judicial system.
These thugs have once again become terrorist role models.
But this time it is we who put them in the limelight.
Shame, shame, on us.
No one should be surprised that Khalid Sheik Mohamed and his cohorts are using their trial to advance their own agenda.
Of course that is what they are doing. The United States presented these ultimate thugs with a stage and with an open microphone.
Did the powers that be in the super power called the United States think that after nine years in prison KSM would be rehabilitated, that he would suddenly respect the institutions of Western liberal democracy and humbly submit to its august power. This is the same man who masterminded the 9-11 attacks and beheaded Daniel Pearl because of what the Wall Street Journal symbolically represented.
The delusional decision makers, those who determined that an open trial was an appropriate forum, should be ashamed. They should be reprimanded, charged with incompetence for putting 9-11 victims and families through an unnecessary and pre-ordained ordeal, for subjecting them to the language and actions of the men who have now twice desecrated them and their loved ones.
This was the moment the terrorists were yearning for, it was another dream come true.
In the eyes of the terrorists the only way it could have been better was if they were given a totally public trial in civilian court.
There were celebrations across terrorist networks as reports circulated of their comrades-in-arms spitting, not only on the graves of the deceased, but also in the face of the US judicial system.
These thugs have once again become terrorist role models.
But this time it is we who put them in the limelight.
Shame, shame, on us.
Micah@MicahHalpern.com
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