Stupid & childish? Not if you look at it from the perspective of the trial lawyers, who stand to make a mint defending terrorists in our courts. Of course, we will need many more courts, judges, & bureaucrats to administer this “justice”, so I imagine the public employee unions would back this crap, too. And mo' money - taxes - to pay for it all.
BY criminalizing terrorism, a whole new section of criminal law is created, with millions of ready-made defendants all over the world. Criminalizing ice cream would have a similar effect.
Trying terrorists in criminal courts is not about justice. Actually, it is a jobs program for lawyers & bureaucrats.
“... of the lawyers, by the lawyers, for the lawyers ...”. Isn't that what Lincoln said?
Well said!