GIULIANI BLASTS TRIAL DECISION - AT 9:34 P.M. ET:  The decision to try the self-confessed mastermind of 9-11 in a federal courthouse in New York is turning out to be one of the most controversial of this administration.  It is also one of the worst.  Former New York City Mayor Giuliani, who, covered with soot and debris from the falling towers, walked right past that U.S. federal courthouse on 9-11, blasts the Obama administration for its recklessness and arrogance: 

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani accused the Obama administration of "repeating the mistake of history" by bringing the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and his accomplices to New York for a civilian trial, saying the administration has definitively reverted to a "pre-9/11 approach."

The mayor who oversaw rescue and recovery efforts in the wake of the attacks on lower Manhattan told "Fox News Sunday" the president is only granting the "wish" of Khalid Sheikh Mohammad at the expense of the American people and that the conspirators should be tried in a military tribunal.

It is not only the wish of Mohammad.  It is the wish of the hard left, which wants to put America on trial.  The left sees creatures like KSM as temporary allies in anti-Americanism.  Remember, the left in 1939 made common cause with Adolf Hitler in the Hitler-Stalin pact.  The hard left is without conscience, but believes it is possessed of a higher morality.

"What the Obama administration is telling us loud and clear is that both in substance and reality, the War on Terror from their point of view is over," Giuliani said. "(Mohammad) should be tried in a military tribunal. He is a war criminal. This is an act of war."

To the Democratic left, 9-11 wasn't an act of war, it was an awkward political expression of aggrieved people.

The Obama administration's decision Friday to bring the alleged conspirators to New York has triggered a backlash from those who say a civilian trial affords the defendants rights they do not deserve, treats them as ordinary criminals and could be used as a platform to spew anti-American rhetoric as well as critique the actions of the Bush administration.

Giuliani said the biggest problem is that the United States is treating terrorists as it did after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which was followed by a string of other terrorist attacks on Americans overseas and finally by the Sept. 11 massacre.

And he suggested that such a high-profile trial in New York City would burden New York City both with the added risk of an attack and the added cost of security expenses.

COMMENT:  The administration doesn't care, Mayor.  It has political points to make, and George Soros to please.

November 15,  2009