You're kidding, right? Have you ever watched those discovery channel documentaries on the supermax prisons?
He was gunning to die a quick death and to be a hero.
What he got is 40 or 50 years locked away in a small cell with a minimum of human contact and with every aspect of his life absolutely controlled by the very people he hates....all the remaining days of his life, and he's not an old man.
Not exactly a blaze of glory.
fine, so its not the Ritz Carlton. He lives an austere existence. But he still gets his meals, some programs on his cell TV, religious services there too, an hour a day of exercise, showers, medical care when he needs it, meetings with his lawyers and human rights visitors, etc.
he gets to live, to live some kind of life - which is more that can be said for the 3000 people who died on 9-11. Many of them roasted alive in the WTC, Manhattan smelled like a crematoria for weeks afterwards.