After flouting U.S. and international laws for nearly seven years, the United States, in a stunning anticlimax, yesterday convicted Osama bin Laden’s driver Salim Ahmed Hamdan of supporting terrorism.
I think it is a testament to the folly of Bush’s “war on terror” that after all the death and suffering and abuse of human rights, the best they can manage is a military commission trying a footsoldier.
I mean, I can understand Hitler’s architect and Pol Pot’s physician, but this…