Terrorism

(1) Everybody:
I think it is fair to say that all of us who repeatedly come here are INTJs. I stayed up thinking about the math problem. I realized to get it right, I would need to divide by the number of days I was actually walking (6), not the total number of days within a week (7), assuming I rested.
(2) The reason UFA is in a civilian court is because it isn't constitutional to do so. More importantly, we are better than the animals who want to kill us, and we should lead by example. If Hassan is involved in a jihad, he is allowed to due process until his guilt is proven. (As we all are.) Its also because we are BETTER than what you described above (detention cells at Gitmo & what not). Everyone deserves a defense. Thats the way our system works. Yes, it has it faults, but I'm not ready to throw it out every time somebody crosses a line we had not drawn before. Its a slippery slope that I'm not willing to give up. Again, I'm all for Holder being fired if a piece of paper is produced that incriminates him the same way the PDB incriminated Bush. (And it most surely did. It named bin Laden and the way he might attack the US one month before bin Laden actually did attack the US...in the same way the memo described.)

But I can do it, too, hypothetically:

Bush saw the memo, or at least heard about it. He knew bin Laden had attacked before and was a viable threat. How come he didn't immediately bomb the hills of Afghanistan where bin Laden was proposed to be hiding by the CIA? Didn't he take the threat seriously?
Or....
How come Bush didn't declare martial law when the DC snipers weren't found right away? Was he not taking terrorism seriuosly?
Or....
Or better yet, how come anthrax was allowed to be sent to the capitol? Tom Daschle, senate majority leader, received a letter tainted with anthrax! The letters read "Death to America!" "Death to Israel!" "Allah is great!"
Wasn't the Bush Administration serious about terrorism enough to go through its leader's mail? This reads like a jihad to me if there ever was one. Bush could have thrown whoever carried the letter into an interrogation cell until he / she gave up a few names. The hell with the Constitution and civil liberties when our national security is at stake!
See where I'm going with this?
Now, I don't believe a word of any of what I wrote above. I believe George W. Bush should not have ignored the PDB and had tightened surveillance in major airports. (19 guys getting on airplanes going one-way with nothing but a few box cutters seems like a red flag to me.)
See where I'm going with this?