As hard and even a little bitter as it sounds, I sometimes think we, as a people, deserve what we get when we can't even figure out that true justice is also true compassion. True justice in this case is the death penalty for reasons too numerous to list here.
BTW, same thing happened with the terrorists in the first World Trade Center bombing. Life in prison. That was several years before 9/11/01, but sparing the lives of the terrorists in the first case didn't make the Islamofacists hate us any less. They went right on killing Americans around the world until they pulled off the four hijackings, brought the towers down, hit the Pentagon and nearly hit the Capitol or White House.
Someday the Islamofacists will succeed in pulling off even bigger attacks. Sparing Moussaui's life will not spare us.
Hi, Wolfstar. I've posted several times on this thread how Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of the 1993 WTC bombing, is incarcerated in the federal prison in Colorado and has continued to correspond with jihadists from around the world.
That Moussaui will be in the same prison as Yousef is very disturbing to me. Justice would be protecting us and society from his brand of jihad.
We've lost our way in this country, Wolfstar. Big time. And I agree with you that if we're so weak as a people that we can't figure out what justice is, then whatever happens is to some extent our fault.