In Professor Williams’ latest essay he asks an essential question, ‘Will we defend ourselves?’. This is an especially good question in light of Wednesday’s sentencing of Ahmed Ressam where the judge gave him 22 years before launching into a criticism of the administration’s handling of terrorists.

This excerpt from the essay pretty well explains my view of how we should be treating terrorists -

During World War II, German soldiers captured not wearing their own army’s uniforms were lined up and shot. In 1942, a German submarine landed eight Nazi saboteurs on the beaches of New York and Florida. Two months after a secret military tribunal, convened by President Roosevelt, six of the eight were executed, even though they hadn’t killed or bombed anyone — just being here was enough.

For those of us who were around during World War II, can we imagine anyone, much less a government high official, having said, “The treatment of detainees is a taint on our country’s reputation, especially in Germany, and there are many questions that must be answered. These questions are important because the safety of our country depends on our reputation and how we are viewed, especially in Germany”? If you substitute “the Muslim world” for “Germany” in that statement, you have House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s, D-Calif., statement.

You can read the rest of the Professor’s latest essay here.