Don’t Treat Terrorists Like Common Criminals
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on February 14th, 2010 5:32 am by HL
Don’t Treat Terrorists Like Common Criminals
Senator Lindsey Graham
The Obama administration's decision to prosecute the mastermind of 9-11 Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and four other co-conspirators in civilian court in New York City makes no sense to most Americans — including me.All of these cases were pending before military commission at Guantanamo Bay before the Obama administration suspended the trials and dismissed charges. That was a major mistake in the war on terror. Receive news alertsThese Al Qaeda terrorists are not common criminals.Their attacks resulted in the biggest loss of American life from an act of war on our homeland since the Civil…
Disconnect with Washington Has Never Been Greater
Larry Kudlow, RCP
The disconnect between Washington and the rest of the country has never been greater. Why can't the political class in the District of Columbia produce a fiscal product that voters, taxpayers and investors are willing to consume?According to The Washington Post, voters want smaller government and fewer government services by a large 58 percent to 38 percent margin. Pollster Scott Rasmussen reveals that 61 percent of voters believe tax cuts help the economy, that 59 percent think tax cuts are a better job-creation tool than increased government spending and that another 59 percent believe…
The Jihad Against Jihadis
Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek
China & the Cyber War
James Fallows, The Atlantic
sponsored by by James Fallows Image credit: Marcos Chin Early in my time in China, I learned a useful lesson for daily life. In the summer of 2006, I saw a contingent of light-green-shirted People’s Liberation Army soldiers marching in formation down a sidewalk on Fuxing Lu in Shanghai, near the U.S. and Iranian consulates. They looked so crisp under the leafy plane trees of the city’s old colonial district that I pulled out a camera to take a picture of them—and, after pushing the button, had to spend the next 60 seconds running at full tilt away from the…
