I’ve got to stop thinking you actually want to engage in thoughtful analysis. It is stupid of me to believe that to be any part of your reason for coming here.

Let’s say for a minute you are correct that “you guys” so screwed the pooch that this guy walks. Is it really in the security interests of this nation for “you guys” (now I’m talking your team) to allow this to happen? Damn there I go again, thinking you might be interested in actual debate.

Lex: I’ll shutup now and stop inciting this discussion as it is clear it ain’t going anywhere taht will add to the quality of the discussion.

Look Alos, you seem ordinarily bright. This has rich potential to descend into the kind of partisan bashing that the CIA show trials were destined to become at the expense of national security and with the risk that the murderer of 3000 people get to go free – a man whose treatment, rough though it might have been saved more American lives. Freeing KSM due prosecutorial ineptitude it might all sell very well at your accustomed fever swamps where despite the lateness of the hour it’s “all Bush, all the time.” But it will go down poorly, I think, with the American people, most of whom feel no need to go looking for targets of two-minute hates and tend to look at enemies who want to kill them more harshly than those who merely disagree with them on single-payer health care.

The whole thing is as rushed and stupid as the pipe dream of shutting down Guantanamo in a year’s time, and I very much fear that it will be as competently executed. I’d feel better if the current administration had demonstrated any kind of real competence in the last nine months, but they haven’t and for “your” side it’s lose-lose. If they pull it off, it will be the kind of victory that repudiates the attacks on Bush, and if they don’t they let a mass murderer go free on the “principal” of evening a political score with people who are no longer in the game. KSM gets to make his toxic case publicly to an adoring crowd of those who’d love to tear you to shreds if they got the chance, and you get to pay for his microphone. And even if he does go free, I’ll lay odds he has a rendezvous with a Hellfire missile in his first month out.

There’s a long and established history of military commissions in this country, and Holder is taking on an enormous risk, personally and politically with this move, intended as it is only to placate the chattering classes and “world opinion” that cares more about seeing America in the dock than KSM. It’s seven different kinds of dumb.

The GOP deserved to lose its monopoly on political power between 2006 and 2008. It would be comedic, if it weren’t so tragic, how eager the Democratic Party seems to give it back again.

Which confirms my suspicions about the current administration.

They really do not comprehend the concept of war or winning. They seem to treat this like it is a Chicago mob hit man, one with connections at City Hall whom they desire to see sprung for some flimsy excuse.

Can we tell who are out “enemies foreign and domestic” yet?