Posted by
Mysterious_1 on Saturday, February 28, 2009 12:20:00 PM
This item from the New York Times yesterday brought to mind the refrain of the country song written by Allen Reynolds (Here I Go Down That) Wrong Road Again and recorded by Crystal Gail (and others). The chorus of the song says:
Here I go down that wrong road again
Goin' back where I've already been
Even though I know where it will end
Here I go down that wrong road again
So what happened to elicit this response from me? The Justice Department announced that it had decided that they would treat an accused terrorist, Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, to all the benefits of the US criminal justice system even though he's been held as an "illegal enemy combatant" for years. Here's my point: We've been down this road before, treating terrorists like criminals. It doesn't work because when dealing with terrorism as a "law enforcement problem," we end up waiting for the terrorists to strike, THEN law enforcement springs into action. I prefer the proactive "Global War On Terror" approach; fewer US civilians die that way.