McCarthy/NRO: Obama’s America Is September 10th America

Andrew C. McCarthy at NRO shreds the childish notion of Obama and the rest that want to live in a 9/10 world while falsely believing that we as a nation can fight the threat of terrorism in the courtroom.

Obama does his best to get the facts wrong (yet again):

“What we know is that, in previous terrorist attacks — for example, the first attack against the World Trade Center, we were able to arrest those responsible, put them on trial. They are currently in U.S. prisons, incapacitated.”

McCarthy responds by taking him behind the woodshed:

“This is a remarkably ignorant account of the American experience with jihadism. In point of fact, while the government managed to prosecute many people responsible for the 1993 WTC bombing, many also escaped

But let’s assume incorrectly, for argument’s sake, that everyone was brought to justice in that case. What about Khobar Towers, Sen. Obama? After Iran and Hezbollah, perhaps with al-Qaeda’s assistance, killed 19 members of the United States Air Force, the Clinton administration responded with … a criminal investigation. The result? No arrests — in fact, no indictment was even filed until 2001. prosecution because of the limits on civilian criminal prosecution. Some who contributed to the attack, like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, continued to operate freely because they were beyond the system’s capacity to apprehend. Abdul Rahman Yasin was released prematurely because there was not sufficient evidence to hold him — he fled to Iraq, where he was harbored for a decade (and has never been apprehended).

After the embassy bombings, the aforementioned bin Laden was indicted along with his top henchman Ayman al-Zawahiri and nearly two dozen others. Exactly six of those men have been prosecuted as a result. And of those, the top-ranking al-Qaeda figure, Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, has never been tried for the embassy bombings. When we gave him all the glorious privileges of the American Constitution, he used his access to free legal help as an opportunity to attempt a kidnapping escape from custody — in the course of which he maimed a prison guard by stabbing him in the eye before being subdued.

Then, of course, there was the October 2000 attack on the Cole in Aden harbor. No arrests, no indictment until well after the 9/11 attacks. The indictment has now been on the books for years as our Yemeni “allies” have pretended to pursue the al-Qaeda perpetrators — who, of course, have been permitted to escape from confinement. There is no prospect of an American prosecution because of the justice system’s painfully obvious limitations. Those terrorists are free to plot more American deaths, unless, of course, our military or intelligence operatives get them first.”

With the recent asinine Supreme Court decision fresh in your mind, educate yourself by reading the rest...

... unless you’d rather remain ignorant and in the good company of the proponent of Hope/Change.

Comments

[Locutisprime]

“What we know is that, in previous terrorist attacks — for example, the first attack against the World Trade Center, we were able to arrest those responsible, put them on trial. They are currently in U.S. prisons, incapacitated.”

As are those at Gitmo. And those dead on the field in Iraq and Afghanistan. The major difference being, the dead don't present a threat. The living however, are more than a threat. And Obama and our own Supreme Court would rather see them all set free and allowed to play our system, than to be protected from further terrors by them.

[Leanna]

... unless you’d rather remain ignorant and in the good company of the proponent of Hope/Change.

He's not ignorant, on the contrary he's a master of deception, duping America into believing he is on our side, until he gets the reins in his hands then watch out, here comes Sharia Law and the end of Freedom!