Posted on Lundi 16 novembre 2009
A partir des courbettes en passant par le prix Nobel pour en arriver au procès de KSM à New York, Victor Davis Hanson réussit en un post à nous peindre l’avenir affligeant qu’Obama nous prépare pour les USA.
Get Used to an Exceptional President and an Unexceptional Country [Victor Davis Hanson]
That’s the current Obama-administration message.
I suppose that in World War II or Korea, the U.S. could have captured non-uniformed infiltrators, shipped them to a POW camp, dithered over how to handle them, and then sent them back to the U.S. for civilian trials, as if they were U.S. citizens, with full legal rights, facing criminal charges of the sort brought against Americans.
But with the upcoming terrorist trials in New York, we have crossed the Rubicon, and lots of eerie questions will arise. Can those attacked or wounded by Predator drones sue in U.S. courts for America’s judge/jury/executioner treatment of them? The next time we catch a terrorist blowing up a building in Kabul, should we read him his Miranda rights, videotape his testimony, offer him a lawyer, and send him to the U.S.? Or should we wink and nod and turn him over to the Afghans, with the understanding that our post-modern justice system is so absurd that we would rather informally rely on others’ pre-modern way of doing business? (Is that why Obama kept renditions — because the more we become utopian and loudly perfectionist, the more we will need others to do our dirty work?) (Lire la suite…)
Pour nous, à eXc, c’est tout vu ; la seule récompense qu’il méritera sera 