re: #437 LudwigVanQuixote

Ludwig, frankly, that’s naive. It’s also ignoring that we are NOT giving some of them trials. Is Barack Obama a North Korean now, according to you?

The US has done some awful, awful things in its time. We’ve supported dictators, we’ve segregated our populace— after enslaving them.

But anyone who doesn’t think that we’ve done far, far more good is an idiot. We’re not saints, we’re not a perfect union of angelic beings. We will screw up, and sometimes the screwups will be huge. We are human. We are allowed to. We are not allowed to become complacent about it.

Nobody here is complacent, nobody here wants an injustice to happen. These people are honestly saying that justice can be served adequately in a military tribunal and I would agree with that given that Holder thinks it adequate for others.

Now think about how many of your criticisms, in the terms you’re making them, apply equally to Holder and Obama.