This sort of thing makes me wonder if Jesuits have their heads screwed on right:
Confronting terrorism by police methods is frequently derided as ineffective, and military means are promoted as an appropriate tool for combating terrorists. But criminal prosecution against the 1993 World Trade Center bombers proved more successful than the military campaign against Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda. The ’93 bombers are in prison; bin Laden is still at large.
Egad, they see it as Obama vs. U.S. “War” is not what’s happening. Maddening.
Moreover, they have found the enemy, and the enemy is us.
[I]In the years ahead our country must still come to grips with our national acquiescence to the politics of fear, which has led to the detention and abuse of hundreds of individuals. Among the necessary steps will be restoration of freedom to innocent detainees, accompanied by public apology and some monetary restitution for the years they lost to incarceration. [Italics added]
Blithe Spirit 
I think our inaction against Al Qaeda after 1993 (and the earlier attacks on our Marines and embassies) led them and their sponsors to think that we were too weak in spirit to go after them, hence 9/11.
The creeps at Gitmo were picked up on the battlefield and were not in uniform — fair game. Now, if our military is smart they will not bring them to our bases, but kill them after extracting necessary information.
Let’s face it, the Jebbies are rooting for the other team.
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I hear a profound theme here that Kerry and others tried to raise — namely that the jihadists are more like an international mafia than a civilizational war, and might better be defeated in that context rather than stirring up a billion Muslims because of only ten thousand extremists. Of course that sort of thinking doesn’t play well with the jingoists
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