I thought the WSJ might be different. Maybe they would be strong and full of courage like the city they work in. Nope. They saved it for the very end, but they wet their bed anyway.
Terrorists also love a big stage, and none come bigger than New York. Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called 20th hijacker, made his civilian trial a spectacle. Not even the best judge can entirely stop KSM and others from doing the same. And Mr. Holder has invited grave and needless security risks by tempting jihadists the world over to strike Manhattan while the trial is in session.
Boo-fucking-hoo. You know who has faced grave security risks ever since 9/11? Our armed forces, that’s who. So, stop whining. You want the typical response from New Yorkers? Here it is:
briane on November 13th, 2009 2:00 pm
Jeez, it’s a good thing the trial’s gonna be in NYC. Let us deal with the terrorists. It’s personal. All you in the rest of the country can go lay down on the fainting couch until you grow a pair.
All of the rest country can stay on the fainting couch if they agree with this, from the WSJ editorial board:
Most Americans, we suspect, can overlook the legal niceties and see this episode through the lens of common sense. Foreign terrorists who wage war on America and everything it stands for have no place sitting in a court of law born of the values they so detest. Mr. Holder has honored mass murder by treating it like any other crime.
I don’t care whether terrorists detest our values or rely upon them; that has nothing to do with me. I want my country to uphold its values, not surrender them to the assholes who attacked us. But, then, I’m not a bedwetter.
