“Oh, When Will They Ever Learn?”*

Which aspect of the terms, “enemy combatant” and “military tribunals” do the President and Attorney General Eric Holder not comprehend?

After virtually every high-level elected official in New York City and the State of New York rejected the Obama Administration’s plan to hold the trials of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his 9/11 co-conspirators in Lower Manhattan, the White House is now looking to entice some other U.S. jurisdiction into providing a venue.

The Beltway Boys just keep trying to shovel money into the hands of anybody willing to stick out their hands. You’d think that Obama’s advisors would know better, especially after the broken healthcare bill went south, despite massive multi-million dollar legislative bribes to Louisiana and Nebraska, arranged through deals with Senators Mary Landrieu and Ben Nelson.

But, no. Now the mayor of upstate Newburg, New York is being tempted to accept the $200 million offer of the Obama Administration: That money will go to any U.S. city that agrees to take the KSM trial. (Newburg, with a population of approximately 29,000, is only 60 miles north of New York City.)

It must be the human condition: Dirty money looks very clean when washed by the political machine.

So, the men and women of the Obama Administration are now walking the streets of the U.S. with a $200 million bag of silver: They are prepared to hand it over to any city that wants it – conditionally, of course.

Is there really a U.S. community willing to risk the safety of its residents by taking that bag? I hope not.


*Post title from the lyrics of Pete Seeger, “Where have all the flowers gone?”