Center for American Progress: New Yorkers are wussies

Hot Air Blog ^ | January 30, 2010 | Ed Morrissey

[Cheap_Hessian]

Does the Center for American Progress want to alienate New York while the Obama-Pelosi progressive legislative agenda drowns in popular discontent? Ken Gude, an associate director at CAP for its International Rights and Responsibility Program, tells Politico that he assumed New Yorkers were braver than to complain about the monumental cost and disruption a criminal trial of 9/11 conspirators would heap onto a city that has already bled both money and blood in the war on terror (via Jonah Goldberg at The Corner):

In his State of the Union address, Obama complained broadly about GOP fear-mongering, but he did not mention Guantanamo, the reasons for his preference for trying terrorists in civilian courts, or his plans to bring some prisoners to Illinois for military trials or indefinite detention.

“Let’s put aside the schoolyard taunts about who’s tough,” Obama said. “Let’s reject the false choice between protecting our people and upholding our values.” He said he was working to fill “unacceptable gaps” highlighted by the Christmas Day attack and boasted of aggressive campaigns against al Qaeda across the globe. “In the last year, hundreds of al Qaeda’s fighters and affiliates, including many senior leaders, have been captured or killed — far more than in 2008,” the president said.

Some Democrats want Obama to be even more forceful, including on the importance of civilian trials for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other alleged 9/11 plotters.

[Conspiracy Guy]

“Center for American Progress: New Yorkers are wussies”

I hope they didn’t spend a lot of time and money on this. I could have told them this 20 years ago after my first trip there.

[FormerACLUmember]

Center for American Progress:

The usual communist front Obama-is-God traitorous anti-American entity

[jessduntno]

If the web was going to get an enema, they would stick the tube in the Center for American Progress...

[rep-always]

Great analogy.

[bigbob]

I vote for moving the trials right across the street from wherever this enema-receptacle organization is located.

[ArchAngel1983]

“In the last year, hundreds of al Qaeda’s fighters and affiliates, including many senior leaders, have been captured or killed — far more than in 2008,” the president said."

Sorry Barry, no amount of spin in the world is going to make be believe you are more serious about fighting terrorism than your predecessor and oh BTW how's that whole terrorist-civilian trial thing working out for you...idiot

[Lancey Howard]

While I mostly agree with Ed, I disagree with his inference that a Manhattan trial wouldn’t necessarily increase the chances for terrorist activity in NYC, and that the big problems would be “disruption to security protocols”. I maintain that wherever the civilian trials for the terrorist masterminds are held, the chances for one or more big-time terrorist attacks at that general location are greatly increased, period. The risk is far worse than just “disruption”.