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Whether this account is accurate is irrelevant, because Muslim jihadists are known to have carried out similar atrocities before. Because they are savages and war criminals, they should be treated as such in our military encounters with them. Maybe Congress should modify some of the federal laws interpreting the laws of war to reduce the process Muslim jihadists are entitled to when captured. Summary execution of captives right on the battlefield should be allowed in some cases, and if doing that conflicts with any part of any international agreement to which this country is a signatory, we should renege on that part of the agreement.
Congress should also update existing legal authority for making war on jihadists. And it should modify the main U.S. torture statute, section 2340, to make clear that waterboarding, if conducted as the Defense Dept. authorized a dozen years ago, is not a violation. Congress should also make clear in federal laws that U.S. citizens who conspire with jihadist groups or take up arms in their cause may be treated as war criminals--i.e. not entitled to a jury trial or grand jury indictment, but only to a military tribunal. The Supreme Court held as much in Ex Parte Quirin more than seventy years ago.
The rules for military tribunals should be streamlined so jihadists may be quickly tried for their war crimes, and if convicted, imprisoned outside the U.S. or executed. Overly fastidious people, many of them anti-American leftist lawyers, and many of them sympathetic to Muslim jihadists, have obstructed our efforts to deal with Muslim jihadists. One clear proof of just how much these sob sisters have interfered with justice is the fact that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11, still has not even been tried for his atrocious crimes, fifteen years after he committed them. Does anyone imagine that jihadists do not take that to mean that America is decadent and lacks the courage of its convictions? It is that very kind of lack of resolve which encourages them.
Finally, the method of execution now specified for war criminals, lethal injection, is further evidence of this overcivilized lack of resolve. Hanging is the traditional method, and we should return to it. We should never miss a chance to take the glamor out of jihad--and to express our moral condemnation of jihadists--by giving them the most degrading death possible, consistent with civilized norms. Any hangings should be televised and shown around the world, as a message to others who might plan to cross the U.S. Rather than wringing our hands and fretting about what Muslim jihadists may do to us if we make them angry, we should do all we can to make them worry about what we may do to them, if we decide to get serious about making war on them. Sometimes the reason a person still wants to fight is just that he hasn't been hit hard enough yet.
Congress should also update existing legal authority for making war on jihadists. And it should modify the main U.S. torture statute, section 2340, to make clear that waterboarding, if conducted as the Defense Dept. authorized a dozen years ago, is not a violation. Congress should also make clear in federal laws that U.S. citizens who conspire with jihadist groups or take up arms in their cause may be treated as war criminals--i.e. not entitled to a jury trial or grand jury indictment, but only to a military tribunal. The Supreme Court held as much in Ex Parte Quirin more than seventy years ago.
The rules for military tribunals should be streamlined so jihadists may be quickly tried for their war crimes, and if convicted, imprisoned outside the U.S. or executed. Overly fastidious people, many of them anti-American leftist lawyers, and many of them sympathetic to Muslim jihadists, have obstructed our efforts to deal with Muslim jihadists. One clear proof of just how much these sob sisters have interfered with justice is the fact that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11, still has not even been tried for his atrocious crimes, fifteen years after he committed them. Does anyone imagine that jihadists do not take that to mean that America is decadent and lacks the courage of its convictions? It is that very kind of lack of resolve which encourages them.
Finally, the method of execution now specified for war criminals, lethal injection, is further evidence of this overcivilized lack of resolve. Hanging is the traditional method, and we should return to it. We should never miss a chance to take the glamor out of jihad--and to express our moral condemnation of jihadists--by giving them the most degrading death possible, consistent with civilized norms. Any hangings should be televised and shown around the world, as a message to others who might plan to cross the U.S. Rather than wringing our hands and fretting about what Muslim jihadists may do to us if we make them angry, we should do all we can to make them worry about what we may do to them, if we decide to get serious about making war on them. Sometimes the reason a person still wants to fight is just that he hasn't been hit hard enough yet.
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