9/11: America’s unfinished business
by Michelle Malkin
MichelleMalkin.com
Before we head to Syria to avenge the mass murder of
their kids, how about we finish avenging ours?
When I say “finish,” of course I really mean
“start.” A dozen years after the 9/11 attacks, the
trials against the jihadist plotters who incinerated
pregnant women, firefighters, grandparents,
newlyweds, toddlers and schoolkids on their
first-ever plane rides have yet to begin.
Justice not only has been delayed and denied.
Justice has been demoted, disowned and deserted.
Justice for the 9/11 victims and families isn’t
blindfolded. She’s gagged and hogtied.
The
terror-coddling Obama White House squandered
precious years trying to
shut down Gitmo to
appease the peaceniks, transnationalists and
Muslim grievance-mongers. President Obama and
Attorney General Eric Holder arrogantly attempted to
shove
civilian trials of terrorists — which would have
been held a stone’s throw from Ground Zero — down
New Yorkers’ throats. Ever since, Team Obama has
dragged its feet on military tribunals for the
al-Qaida crew.
If we’re lucky — that’s a big if — the death penalty
war crimes trials for KSM and his co-conspirators
may begin in the
fall of 2014. Maybe. Thanks to cunning delays,
made-for-media theatrics and stomach-turning whining
by the Gitmo detainees, the journey to hold the 9/11
plotters accountable has become a vulgar joke.
The last time pretrial hearings were held,
defendants used their international platform to
complain about bathroom breaks and Navy food, which
one accused terrorist equated to “torture.” Despite
being supplied with fresh halal meals that comport
with their Muslim dietary requirements, one member
of KSM’s posse complained that his lunches did not
include extra condiments such as olives and honey.
Back at
Club Gitmo, other jihadi suspects continue to
enjoy taxpayer-subsidized movie nights, art and
English classes, and Nintendos and PlayStations. And
if the clogged wheels of justice for 9/11 victims
weren’t bad enough, don’t forget: In 2009, the Obama
administration
dropped the charges against 2000 U.S.S. Cole bombing
suspect, Gitmo detainee and former Persian Gulf
Operations Chief for al-Qaida Abd al-Rahim
al-Nashiri — and has made no progress on bringing
him to justice since reinstating the charges (only
under public pressure) in 2011.
How is it that America is poised to use our military
— the American people’s, not Obama’s — for a
humanitarian intervention that may very well aid and
abet the same barbaric forces that brought
unprecedented death and destruction to New York
City, Shanksville, Pa., and Washington, D.C., just
12 short unavenged years ago?
How is it that we prosecuted 2009 Fort Hood jihadist
Nidal Hasan quicker than his bloodthirsty Islamist
brethren who orchestrated the 2001 terror plot that
killed more than 2,700 innocent men, women and
children?
Remember: The Bush administration first brought
military charges of conspiracy, murder in violation
of the law of war, attacking civilians, hijacking
aircraft and terrorism against KSM and his
Koran-inspired killing crew in 2008. Obama
recklessly aborted those military tribunals in his
bleeding-heart social justice bid to provide full
U.S. constitutional protections for the foreign
soldiers of Allah.
It took the united stand of 9/11 families, veterans,
anti-jihad watchdogs and first responders in
Manhattan in late 2009 to force Obama and Holder to
retreat. They raised their voices to keep 9/11 war
crimes trials out of civilian courts, foreign
terrorists off of U.S. soil and America from
returning to pre-9/11 days when the feds responded
to deadly terrorist attacks with arrest warrants.
The 9/11 Never Forget Coalition refused to stand on
the sidelines while Obama’s soft-on-jihad lawyers
moved to grant war criminals the same rights as
American citizens while endangering the safety of
New Yorkers.
Debra Burlingame, founder of 9/11 Families for a
Safe and Strong America and sister of American
Airlines Flight 77 pilot Charles Frank “Chic”
Burlingame III (the flight the jihadists crashed
into the Pentagon) sounded the alarm and warned the
Obama/Holder brigade:
“We will fight you all the way.”
That’s the unapologetic vigilance America was
supposed to have adopted after the towers fell, the
planes crashed and the ashes choked the air.
Instead, America’s leaders have allowed jihadists to
make a mockery of justice. Muslim Brotherhood
radicals waltz freely in and out of the nation’s
capital. Border security remains a joke. A
functioning entry-exit program for foreign
visa-holders is still nonexistent. There still is no
systemic, coherent and unapologetic plan to keep
Islamic radicals from spreading their hate and
endangering Americans in our military, prisons and
schools.
I’m sick of 9/11 anniversary ceremonies by
politicians who pay lip service to peace and justice
for our country, but refuse to secure them all the
way, every day. Remembrance is worthless without
resolve. Resolve is useless without action.
Want to honor the 9/11 dead? Take care of unfinished
business here at home. Put America first.
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2013