tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708139263643046536.post1145279978417248628..comments2024-03-28T14:59:42.168-04:00Comments on Kresta In The Afternoon: Today on Kresta - February 4, 2010Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708139263643046536.post-80711137287312297172010-02-05T21:27:16.145-05:002010-02-05T21:27:16.145-05:00Re: The Interview with Mark Bonner about the 9-11 ...Re: The Interview with Mark Bonner about the 9-11 Terror Trials <br /><br />This was a lousy interview. Mark Bonner tells us that a civil trial will give Khalid Sheikh Mohammed a propaganda bully pulpit and that if we have this trial, it will be a propaganda disaster. What propaganda does Bonner have in mind? He doesn't say, and Al doesn't ask. Conservatives, like Pat Buchanan, have said that civil trials for terrorists will put America on trial. Why? Have we done something wrong? I know that Pat thinks the answer to that question is yes. Well then, ... we'd better keep a lid on it. <br /><br />Bonner called KSM a war criminal. On what basis is KSM a war criminal? Has Congress declared a state of war on the likes of KSM? In September 2001, Congress passed a resolution authorizing the use of military force against terrorists and those who harbor them. The resolution cites the War Powers Act. Does that form the basis for calling KSM a war criminal? I'm not a lawyer, but I have my doubts about all this stuff. It all seems very loose and contrived. <br /><br />Al said that giving Scott Roeder a bully pulpit boomeranged on Roeder and the pro-life movement, and maybe the same thing could happen with KSM. Later, though, Al said that a civil trial would allow KSM to provide "an apologetics for radical Islam." <br /><br />When Al threw Scott Roeder into the mix, Bonner complained that Roeder "wasn't allowed to explain, in his mind, what his motive was for committing these offenses." But it's obvious that Bonner does not want to give KSM the same opportunity to explain his motive. <br /><br />This interview was a mess: a great demonstration of the conservative, hierarchical, know-it-all Catholic mindset.maumanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09250198272377329639noreply@blogger.com