Is Kerry telling an issue that the Post is writing serious front page articles about to "shut up?"

[Leopolds Ghost]

The people who are concerned about the rule of law and upset that Duke and American University polisci professors and legal experts are proclaiming that this sets a precedent that any enemy combatant or enemy leader can be executed in similar fashion instead of captured, the people like me who are upset over the lack of closure and the unwillingness to rebuild the towers and the fact that we started three wars in the Middle East using Bin Laden as a pretext only to execute him Mafia-style when we finally captured him, or people who are upset that we had the opportunity for a tribunal,

LIKE WITH THE HUTU INTERAHAMWE ??

(not that many ignorant buffoons who are able to vote even know what the Hutu Interahamwe are or what they did)

It's a question of closure. It seems that most Americans want to forget things as fast as possible and move on.

This is no different from the way many Americans on the center-right reacted to the end of WWII -- they wanted to rebuild Germany as fast as possible, exonerate all the junior Nazis, proclaim Hitler dead was the end of all their problems and get on with it. They didn't want a Nuremberg trial.

Kill the bad guy, move on to the next video game level (as one Post op-ed put it, reflecting the exact same concerns I have, as did the front page article in the Post Express recently). Oh wait! Panetta says we need to interrogate his wife and kid - why? Because they might have knowledge of what bin Laden was up to! Ummmm waitaminute......

See, this is how the famous "Overton Window" works. You drag the discourse so far to the right that what was once acceptable moral discourse about how we conduct and respond to terror becomes unacceptable and treasonous, tantamount to sympathy for the enemy (bin Laden). Watch them manage the discourse so that it becomes unacceptable again to question the involvement of high-level Pakistanis with bin Laden, despite the fact that (as the newspapers rather indelicately stated this past week) Al Qaeda was founded and has always been headquartered in -- you guessed it -- PAKISTAN! But it will soon be arranged thru cable TV that such nuttery will be dismissed and relegated to the dungeon of unacceptable political discourse, since Pakistan is a lucrative military ally and we need them to continue our pointless and counterproductive occupation of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the US tacitly supports friendly dictators in Syria and Bahrain in the very midst of the Arab Spring because we don't want Shi'ites (who assisted the US in the hunt for the anti-Shi'ite bin Laden) to have more influence on US oil... But the Libyan revolt is portrayed as an absolutely, positively, unique event, which is totally unlike, say, Bahrain or Yemen or the Congo! Notice how European military is taken the lead in Libya? That is because Europeans have sole access to Libyan oil contracts, so it is their colonial military jurisdiction, so to speak, and the US is not wanted. The rebels will be hung on the bedpost and their dreams of freedom forgotten once a new colonial "elected official" is found. That is why we're not arming the rebels and assisting them more directly.