I think this is the right decision. Convicting KSM and his cronies without a public trial would most likely result in more terrorism recruitment. If we descend to the level of despots and dictators, convicting people in secret in a kangaroo court, it’s easy for terrorists to rally support for their cause, and we’ve lost the war. Our way of life: freedom, law, order, responsibility, will have been relinquished and our justice system will begin to look more and more like the justice systems in China, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Iraq (under Saddam), and the old Soviet Union that we so vehemently oppose.