Friday, July 31, 2009

Nope

Then there's the attention Daskal lavished on Canadian-born Omar Khadr, a detainee she says is being denied "his rights as a child." (Human Rights Watch has urged Defense Secretary Bob Gates to transfer Khadr to courts where he'd be treated as a juvenile.) He's an adult now, but Khadr was 15 when apprehended on an Afghan battlefield — where, US troops say, he launched the grenade that killed Sgt. First Class Christopher Speer.

Sgt. Layne Morris, who was wounded by the same grenade, calls claims that Khadr should be treated as a child "laughable." And he says: "The fact that she took on that young man's case — and has argued the ridiculous things that she has — and is now appointed to the Justice Department, where she brings in those same thought processes and prejudices — it doesn't bode well for the security of our country."


Nope, it sure doesn't.