Posted by
Defend America on Saturday, February 13, 2010 7:24:17 AM
No Compromise on Enemy Combatants
We’re winning because we should be winning.
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Imagine
the Yanks are beating the Mets 12–0 in the eighth inning (I know — not
hard to imagine). Now, imagine if the Mets approach the Yanks and say,
“How ’bout we give you a new Gatorade barrel, and we call this thing a
draw?” Joe Girardi would laugh them out of the dugout and say, “Hey,
you want to forfeit, go ahead and forfeit. Otherwise, get back out on
the field and finish getting your brains beat in.”
This is how
we ought to think about rumors swirling around that the Obama
administration is looking for a deal on enemy combatants and that some
GOP types are listening. The compromise would be: KSM gets a military
commission, but Republicans agree to close Gitmo and bring the
combatants to stateside federal prisons.
This would be a
terrible sell-out of our national security. It would also be
unnecessary. The American people strongly support military commissions
for enemy combatants — not for all terrorism cases, but for all
unlawful alien enemy operatives who have no right to be tried in our
civilian courts and for whom Congress has authorized military
commissions.
http://article.nationalreview.com/424948/no-compromise-on-enemy-combatants/andrew-c-mccarthy