Thank God the U.S. no longer believes in fair trials

You knew this was coming.

While the U.S. detains terrorists until they are no longer considered a threat, Germany gives them lawyers, subject them to trials, and releases them based upon insufficient evidence. And when all is said and done, the German courts blame the U.S. for not providing the information necessary to convict them.

Damn straight. Those wussy Germans. Why can't they simply lock everyone up who might shared an apartment with a terrorist and toss the key. That's the way we do it. And it works so damned well.

Idiots. My guess is that Abdelghani Mzoudi probably did have previous knowledge of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. There's certainly a whole lot of guilt by association at play here. And it is, once again, infuriating that no one has truly been convicted for the conspiracy other than that crazy French guy, Moussaoui (who, by the way, pleaded guilty in a U.S. trial before a judge even as the prosecutors' case appeared to be crumbling). But in a free society, guilt by association just doesn't cut it, and the U.S. habit of withholding evidence that could be used to convict -- or, yes, exonerate -- indicted conspirators is the height of arrogance and incompetence. That's a deadly combination. We should be leading, not hindering, global investigations into terror networks. But, instead, we operate under the assumption that only the military can battle the Global War on Terror (GWOT), and that we rounded up all of the bad bin Laden guys on the battlefields of Afghanistan.

We didn't. They were -- and probably are -- in places like Germany, France, and Spain. It might be helpful for the U.S. to start assisting their anti-terror counterparts in investigating, arresting, and convicting them...in fair trials where all the relevant evidence is presented.