John McCain Takes the Opportunity to Shoot Himself Squarely in the Pinky Toe
So this week is proving to be not such a graet week here in America for Barack Obama. The MSM are acting like jilted lovers. Obama’s doing his best impression of Greek mythological hero about five seconds before the gods smack him down. He’s gotten little to no bump from his victory tour.
So how does John McCain capitalize on this? He says that the same stupid thing about trying Osama bin Laden in a Nuremberg-like trial that Obama did just a couple of weeks ago.
BLITZER: If you capture him alive, what do you do with him?
MCCAIN: Of course you put him on trial. I mean, there are ample precedents of — for that. And it might be a good thing to reveal to the world the enormity of this guy’s crimes and his intentions, which are still there and he’s working night and day to destroy everything we stand for and believe in.
BLITZER: Do you do him a regular civilian trial here in the United States or is it a war crimes tribunal, a military commission, what kind of legal justice would you bring him toward?
MCCAIN: We have various options, but the Nuremburg trials are certainly an example of the kind of tribunal that we could move forward with. I don’t think we would have any difficulty devising an internationally-supported mechanism that would mete out justice and there’s no problem there.
The difference between McCain and Obama is that Obama apparently doesn’t know that Nuremburg was an international affair where the accused got Constitutional rights. Allah’s point on Nuremberg definitely applies to McCain, too.
What I want to know is why Johnny Mac is so confident that the international community would be quick to agree on a means to try bin Laden quickly? The international community has already agreed on one mechanism called the International Criminal Court. It’s taken that body over five years to even try to get an arrest warrant for a man who committed genocide right out in the open. What makes McCain so very certain that the world is going to rally ’round the notion of some sort of Nuremberg-like tribunal? We can’t even get the world to agree that bin Laden did anything wrong.
John McCain has spent a bit too much time breathing the rarefied air of the internationalist crowd and too little time thinking about history. The Nuremberg trials worked in large part because the Allies didn’t spend a ton of time trying to get worldwide approval for what they did. They held the tribunals, made darned sure they got it right, and left the judgments to history. The Allies didn’t get international support and, quite frankly, neither should we. Obama bin Laden attacked us on 9/11 and no one else. He’s since been responsible for attacks in other countries and we should invite those other countries to be part of the trial. But no one else. Not the UN. Not the “international community”. Definitely not the gang of corrupt and evil dictators who infest the United Nations.
His suggestion just stinks and he wasted a ton of momentum by doing something dumb yet again.
Other Posts of Interest:
- Five Years After the Genocide Started, The World Finally Kind of Does Something
- John McCain – No One’s First Choice
- John McCain Loses A Millstone
Category: Fighting the Islamists, Johnny Mac, The World At Large
"Obama bin Laden attacked us on 9/11 and no one else."
While I agree with you, there were 19 men who flew those planes and died in them. They've already received the death sentence. Osama was safely in Afghanistan when it happened. I suspect that any court of law would be a piece of cake when it came to a complete and total failure to directly connect Osama to the attack. Yes, I know that there are tapes that have him making statements that indicate his involvement – but they're all translations – bet they could be translated totally innocently. Yes, there are threats against "the great satan" in his videos and tapes, but we've heard the same threats from Imanutjob, and he's still walking around with no threats of trial.
Personally, I think any kind of court action will be a bust. Killing him is also not a great idea – martyrs make causes. Well, killing him is actually to be preferred, but more in line with the treatment you give problem dogs in rural USA – SSS…Shoot, Shovel, and Shut up.
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