It may take many years before we know what this episode in human history was actually all about, and how important it truly was. Give it time, for it will get played out. And when the dust finally settles, one side will have won.
Then, having learned from the Arab and Israeli interregnum, we won't get duped into years of letting our victory continually get toyed with. For we have learned, winning something worth fighting for means holding onto that victory.
And once that victory is in hand, I guarantee you, peaceful and not-so-peaceful Muslims alike, we will hold tightly to our victory. Because, after seeing what you're truly capable of, when it comes to America, as you're starting to see, there's no more Mr. Nice Guy.
Maybe not today, maybe not tommorow. These guys are involved in a "Third World War" with shitloads of Arabs apparently. Fighting from behind computer screens as usual.
also:
Osama has heeded, not hijacked, Islam.
In the event that doubts linger, "Infiltration's," "Top 10 Myths Of Islam" blows an even bigger hole in the heart of the Religion-of-Peace fable. Terrorism is an excrescence of Islam, Sperry argues, because while the murder of "innocents" might be prohibited, "orthodox Muslims do not consider Jews and Christians [much less Israeli civilians] necessarily innocent." In other words, "What the public recognizes as murder, these Muslims recognize as justice."
I may have to stick up a permanent link to this one. Its great. In other news:
Four years ago Moussaoui was on the verge of pleading guilty to offenses that would have resulted in a life sentence. But he was unwilling to accept the government's insistence that he admit to being the 20th hijacker of Sept. 11, 2001 -- an allegation the government has long since dropped.
For almost two years, the case was stalled as the government sought Moussaoui's execution while denying him access to witnesses in its control who had testimony establishing that he was not involved in the Sept. 11 plot at all. Due process has long required the government to turn over such "exculpatory" evidence, but the government, citing national security, refused to afford Moussaoui access to this evidence. In October 2003 the trial court offered a reasonable solution: Allow the trial to proceed but eliminate the death penalty, because that's what the government's exculpatory evidence related to. The government refused that solution and spent several more years trying Moussaoui. The case ended where it began -- with Moussaoui facing life in prison.
Meanwhile, at a secret CIA "black site" prison, the United States is holding the alleged mastermind of Sept. 11, Khalid Sheik Mohammed. And at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, it has Mohamed al-Qahtani, who the government now claims is the real would-be 20th hijacker. But the administration can't try either of these men, because any such proceeding would turn into a trial of the United States' own tactics in the war on terrorism.
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