as one friend put it.Except the criminals

has earned in hosting big trials, or all of the success the federal government has had trying terror suspects since 9/11, the response is always the same. 9/11 was different. The criminals are monsters. Not here. Not now. Not ever. A "firing squad would be good enough for me," as one friend put it.Except the criminals (terrorists, warriors, jihadists, whatever you want to call them) are not monsters or superhuman. They aren't going to break out of prison like James Bond. I keep shouting to all who will listen: Mohammed is just a man, after all, a man like Timothy McVeigh or Terry Nichols or Theodore Kaczynski or Ramzi Yousef. He's a man who helped other men exploit our national security weaknesses a decade ago--but he's just a mere mortal who was captured while he was sleeping in a bed in Pakistan and not in a foxhole or in a cave on the battle front in Afghanistan. It clearly makes some people feel better to dehumanize him anyway. By enhancing Mohammed's perceived

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