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Another ridiculous decision from the Ninth Circuit

September 5, 2009 - 2:20 pm - by Roger Kimball
AtheistConservative
2009-09-07 16:52:25

The problem is that people like Moho don’t reason, they just react. Nevermind that there is legal and historical precedent for holding a person ‘on suspicion’ or as a ‘material witness’. If someone was arrested during the Bush administration, it must be evil! Even though, of course, the exact same practices are used today.

Pure BDS and standard liberal derangement. It amazes me that liberals don’t learn lessons. Why did we lose Vietnam (a Democrat war)? Because our troops were held to a higher standard than the enemy who refused to follow ‘rules of war’. Anything our troops or allies did to try to actually fight became headline news and a ‘source of shame’; useful tactics were banned; and they were held to the Geneva Convention standards against an enemy who routinely used asymmetric warfare. So were bled and bled until public opinion said “just give up”.

Now we have the same thing in the war against terrorism: people trying to do what is necessary – within the bounds of law no matter what uninformed jackasses like Moho say – and the lefties and their lapdog administration just wants to “give up”.

Liberalism is a mental disorder.