WSJ.com - KSM, the Victim

Powered by           As if to prove that America has lost its seriousness and sense of proportion, now we are told that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed deserves the protection of the U.S. Constitution. Opponents of military commissions (including Barack Obama) want KSM & Co. turned over to the regular civilian courts, or at least to military courts-martial; anything else is said to abridge American freedoms. This attitude is either disingenuous or naïve, or both, because it is tenable only by discounting the nature of the attacks and the enemies who carried them out. The ultimate purpose of the tribunals is to administer justice. It is a strange worldview that considers such tribunals and the death penalty inappropriate for the murders of 2,972 people in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania, and hundreds more world-wide. A society that would not tender justice to a human butcher like KSM is not serious about defending itself.             Click the following to access the sent link:       WSJ.com - Opinion: KSM, the Victim* This article will be available to non-subscribers of the Online Journal for up to seven days after it is e-mailed.                 Get your EMAIL THIS Browser Button and use it to email information from any Web site.           *This article can also be accessed if you copy and paste the entire address below into your web browser. http://online.wsj.com/wsjgate?subURI=%2Farticle%2FSB120311938194772703-email.html&nonsubURI=%2Farticle_email%2FSB120311938194772703-lMyQjAxMDI4MDEzODExMTg5Wj.html