The danger of benign neglect
Imagine for a moment that 15 months after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Indian authorities captured attack mastermind and Osama bin Laden henchman Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in a raid in southern India. Imagine how loudly and quickly the American government and media would have demanded extradition from India to the United States. Now, imagine the outrage if India announced instead that it had struck a plea bargain with Mohammed and not only refused extradition, but refused to allow American authorities to interview him.
And yet, since his arrest in Chicago on Oct. 3, 2009, American authorities have had in their custody a Pakistani-American named David Coleman Headley, who has confessed to playing a lead role in the deadly terrorist attack in Mumbai on Nov.… Seguir leyendo »