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2006-05-04 Home Front: WoT

Peggy Noonan: "If Moussaoui didn't deserve the death penalty, who does?"

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Posted by Mike 2006-05-04 06:27|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I don't want to end with an air of hopelessness, so here's some hope, offered to the bureau of prisons. I hope he doesn't get cable TV in his cell. I hope he doesn't get to use his hour a day in general population getting buff and converting prisoners to jihad. I hope he isn't allowed visitors with whom he can do impolite things like plot against our country. I hope he isn't allowed anniversary interviews. I hope his jolly colleagues don't take captives whom they threaten to kill unless Moussaoui is released.

I hope he doesn't do any more damage. I hope this is the last we hear of him.

From what I've heard, all of these hopes are substantiated enough that she doesn't have to worry (making this article possibly redundant) in the form of supermax...

Posted by Spomogum Fleper7978 2006-05-04 08:01|| 2006-05-04 08:01|| Front Page Top

#2 "(then)who does?"

How about, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad or Ramsi bin Al-Sheib.

Don't blame the jury process, the prosecution hosed this one.

Posted by DepotGuy 2006-05-04 09:15|| 2006-05-04 09:15|| Front Page Top

#3 The political leadership hosed this one, as well as all terrorism cases within US borders by defining this as a criminal case. This is war in the most foul, to kill as civilians possible in the name of an Arabian moon god.

Posted by ed 2006-05-04 09:27|| 2006-05-04 09:27|| Front Page Top

#4 I agree that the result was unjust, but I think it was useful anyhow. We're at war, and at the moment some of our allies are at best rather wishy-washy. Blair may be solidly beside us, but what I read suggests that the meaning of the subway bombings hasn't fully set in for the electorate there; and the average Britain isn't with us in the war effort. {Of course that's filtered through the British media, so I could be wrong. HowardUK?}
For reasons I still don't fully understand, the death penalty really gets European panties in a knot. Moussaoui on death row would have caused a major row, making it harder for Europeans who understand the war to keep/win support. And that hurts our war effort.
So, a useful injustice. Could be worse.

Posted by James">James 2006-05-04 09:47|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]">[http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2006-05-04 09:47|| Front Page Top

#5 James, I do believe that "the meaning of the subway bombings hasn't fully set in for the electorate there; and the average Britain isn't with us in the war effort." If we don't want to have to deal with all of the world's problems ourselves, or really do need allies, then somebody's got to be around to deal with them for us or for us to ally with, and metaphorically shanking them for not hewing to your own ideology... doesn't that sound familiar?

To be honest, "a useful injustice. Could be worse," definitely applies, emphasis on the latter.

Honest to gosh, my message to certain people who might complain about that -- welcome to 21st century warfare. "Politicized, mediacized, PR-icized" is the new "crude grit."

Posted by Spomogum Fleper7978 2006-05-04 10:17|| 2006-05-04 10:17|| Front Page Top

#6 he wants martyrdom, we can not give it to him.

Posted by bk 2006-05-04 11:32|| 2006-05-04 11:32|| Front Page Top

#7 He dies, he's a martyr. He lives, he's a living icon. Either way, in some way, we're screwed. Time to pick the long-term* better one.

* Long-term can necessitate short-term concessions (but only those that guarantee long-term results).

Posted by Spomogum Fleper7978 2006-05-04 11:40|| 2006-05-04 11:40|| Front Page Top

#8 I date this to the OJ jury.
It's all OJ's fault.

Posted by 3dc 2006-05-04 11:57|| 2006-05-04 11:57|| Front Page Top

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