[browardchad]

the U.S. criminal justice system is still inadequate to prosecute terrorists

And the gubmint/congress is doing exactly what about that?

[KellyAdmirer]

Lindh gets more jail time than the flimsy evidence against him warranted.... Lindh, while inclining toward the grandiose/delusional, is nevertheless a rational actor, with a rational actor's natural self-interest in the shortest jail term for which he can bargain...It was a rational result in the only rational terror trial we're going to see.

Internal contradiction alert! Formula: first take a broad swipe at the case against the "poor boy," then make it sound like he was just doing all he could against the evil oppressors. That way, he sounds noble, and those prosecuting sound evil. Either the case was solid, not flimsy, and he indeed did bargain a sweetheart deal, or, the case indeed was flimsy but for him the result was not "rational." One or the other, Slate, one or the other.