The Week - September 11, 2001 terrorist attack death toll approaches 3,245 - this and other items are discussed

National Review, Dec 17, 2001

Reasonable questions can be raised about the details of these policies. But it is logically and morally obtuse to warn, as some have done, that they in some way compromise the moral legitimacy of our cause. This war is not being fought to vindicate the American criminal-justice system in all its faded glory; nor to protect liberal shibboleths.

Those who pretend otherwise-including Europeans who are saying they will not extradite suspected terrorists to us for fear they will face military tribunals-are being dangerously short-sighted. Their short-sightedness consists of forgetting that we are at war.