Viktor Bout leaves the criminal court in Bangkok after a Thai judge ruled that he could not be extradited to face charges in the United States. Photograph: Narong Sangnak/EPA.From IBDeditorials:
The Law: Terrorists have had lots to celebrate recently as court rulings from Bangkok to Madrid wiped out years of work to stop them and raised doubts about treating the war on terror as a law-enforcement action.
Last Friday, a U.S. federal judge ordered the release of Sheik Mohammed al-Moayad, a Yemeni cleric convicted in 2005 of financing Hamas and trying to bankroll al-Qaida by as much as $20 million. Al-Moayad had been sentenced to 75 years, but based on claims of improperly admitted evidence, a judge ordered him freed. Now set for deportation, he will likely kill again.
Then on Tuesday, a Thai judge ordered Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout, a monster known as "The Lord of War" and "The Merchant of Death" for selling billions in illegal weapons to terrorists on four continents, set free instead of extraditing him to the U.S.
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My Comment: The leaders who are elected and the judges that they appoint are reflective of what the people want. In much of the world, there is a lessening in the determination to combat and fight international terrorism and their support structures. The people who are elected .... President Obama included .... reflect this mindset and are implementing it in government policy and action.
As much as I fear that present policy is only laying the groundwork for another 9/11, the simple fact is that most people do not share nor accept this point of view.
I do not call this a weakening will to crush terror .... I call this a surrender .... and there is very little that I or you can do anything about.