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I get where President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder are coming from. They think that if we change our way of life, the terrorists will have won.
In principle, I agree. If upholding our values makes fighting the war on terror harder, then it should be harder.
That's why I don't care much that it will cost more money to try suspected terrorists in the Big Apple than it would in the state-of-the-art facility at Guantanamo Bay. Similarly, while the security concerns stemming from a trial in New York are real, I think we can handle them....
It's No Way to Fight a War On Terror
Now I can start trying to untangle the research behind their various state sponsors. Iran and Syria are either suspected or known to be sponsors, and Saudi-Arabia provides financial support, though probably through parties outside of the Saudi government. Before I start digging into those, however, I'd like to make one point that I would have hoped would be obvious to anyone who sat down and thought it through even for a moment. We are talking about an para-military organization with sophisticated communications, electronics, web sites, training camps and bases hosting hundreds or thousands at a time (enough that they are able to challenge the government of Pakistan for the territory they hold), highly trained operations...