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.
Yes, we sure have. Prior to President Bush having the guts and foresight to attack both Afghanistan and Iraq, Americans around the world were being slaughtered by the Islamofacist freaks while Clinton and our government treated a war as a garden-variety crime problem.
It's no accident at all that since 9/11/01 we have not been hit again. No African embassy bombings. No USS Cole-like incidents. No 9/11-style massive attacks. Other countries have been hit, and our soldiers have been attacked in Afghanistan and Iraq. But American civilian targets here and overseas have not been hit.
But as time as passed, Americans as a people have continued to slip back into the comfortable old ways of doing things. Justice is once again backwards as members of Congress call for the impeachment of the man who kept us safe these past five years while our fellow citizens spare the life of one of the Islamowarriors who made 9/11 happen. And others of our fellow citizens sit around here bitching and moaning and playing right into the hands of those who want to both impeach the president and spare the lives of men like Moussaui.
I am sick at heart over these developments.
I've been mulling this over since 4:30- everytime I think I've accepted this sentence I feel a rage welling up. A couple of thoughts keep cropping up. The first is that September 11th did not have a profound effect on ALL Americans. The second- is that it is going to take a nuke or similar attack to bring these liberals to their senses.
My kneejerk reaction when listening to the mitigating circumstances: This is Oprah's fault.