The idea of defining 9/11 and similar terrorist attacks as “crimes against humanity” is attractive, I’ll admit- after all, that was precisely the tack taken by the Allied War Crimes Tribunal (a military court) at Nuremberg. But it overlooks the small detail that before we could bring the Nazi war criminals to justice for their crimes, we first had to defeat their army on the battlefield, destroy their nation’s war-fighting capabilities, occupy and control their country, depose their government, and THEN arrest and try the officials responsible for their numerous and diverse crimes against the rest of the human race.
Demanding the legal procedures in absence of the military operations which end the ability of the criminals to continue their depredations is not “putting the cart before the horse”- it’s expecting the cart to somehow propel itself without any source of motive power.
I admit that such willful ignorance, or total lack of common sense, on the part of Ms. Robinson- or, for that matter, President Obama- does not surprise me. It simply shows that, as is so common with “progressives”, in their case “feelings” trump logic, any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
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