Faisal Shahzad plead guilty today to planning and attempting to carry out a bombing attack in New York's Times Square earlier this year. Shahzad called his plot "war."
When asked to state whether he plead innocent or guilty, Shahzad made the statement, "It's a war. I am part of the answer to the US terrorizing the Muslim nations and the Muslim people."
Shahzad attempted to carry out the latest of several acts of "war" on American soil. On Christmas Day 2009, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempted to blow up a trans-Atlantic Northwest Airlines flight. White house administration official claimed this attack to be an act of terrorism only later to retract.
In November 2009, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan opened fire at Fort Hood Military base killing 13 and injuring 32. The investigation into this plot is still ongoing, while senators from both sides of the aisle have complained about the difficulty in getting information with regards to this attack. The Obama administration still refuses to call this attack terrorism.
One has to wonder why our government is so slow to call these terrorist attacks, "Acts of War" when the terrorists themselves claim to be committing these atrocities as acts of war against our country. All three of the aforementioned war mongers are being tried in criminal court rather than being tried under military tribunal for acts of war.
This circumstance leaves us with a rather incongruent policy on terror. In essence we are putting our sons and daughters in harm's way on foreign soil in order to locate and kill potential terrorists who want to do us harm before they can equip themselves to do so; but, if we actually catch someone in the act of committing terror on our soil, we must give them every right and privilege afforded a United States citizen.
No wonder we are having such a hard time in both theaters of war in which we are presently engaged.
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