A Man and his Truck, Part Deux

A 30 year veteran of the United States Army Reserve said yesterday: "Let me say this, with respect to those who wish to harm us, I believe that our Constitution and laws exist to protect this nation - they do not grant rights and privileges to enemies in wartime.

In dealing with terrorists, our tax dollars should pay for weapons to stop them, not lawyers to defend them. ... giving new rights to terrorists is wrong for our Country."

Even more than the cram-down on nationalizing control of health care (reasonable people of good will can support different positions in this policy debate), the current Administration's future will be decided, in my judgment, by its willingness to stop treating enemy combatants as merely street criminals. Nobody, but the crack-pot, radical fringe of the nation's electorate supports spending 100 million dollars a year to try the 911 Mastermind and his four minions in civilian court in NYC. With no political upside to giving these terrorists a taxpayer funded microphone for two or three years in the world's media capital, should the Administration continue to pursue this Sally Fields sissy-ass course of action, we will know that respecting the will of the people is not important to the current short term occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Wash. D.C. Just saying ...