New York trials: Smart or dumb (or not sure)?

This is clearly not
without risk — but if military trials were easy, we wouldn’t have had the
Supreme Court decisions and the George W. Bush administration would have been
trying cases left and right. The fact is that only three people have been
convicted in military trials, less that one-half of 1 percent of those held. Contrast
that with the 92 percent conviction rate of terrorists who have been tried in
U.S. Courts.

The case against these
five is clearly unbelievably strong — it is hard to get much better that
confessions on al Jazeera television and even bragging to the world, taking
credit for these heinous acts.

In addition, the decision to try the perpetrators of the USS
Cole, which took place on foreign soil, in a military court makes sense. Obviously,
the key here is to move forward, sort through the legal and logistical morass
left by the Bush-Cheney administration and see to it that justice is done. This
is the right call.