Remember when George W. Bush said "they hate us for our freedoms"? Well, we put our freedoms up front and put alleged terrorist Ahmed Ghaillani on trial in New York, and he was convicted on one of over 280 counts.
Many on the right think this proves that our court system is inadequate to handle the realities of terrorist trials.
For this one count, Ghaillani faces 20 years in prison. The Guantanamo Bay prisoners who sat before military commissions, combined, face shorter terms than does Ghaillani.
I fail to see this as proving anything other than the system works pretty well, and it's the military commissions, of questionable legal provenance anyway, are really warped.
