"I win," says Zacharias Moussaoui, as he enters federal prison with a life sentence. Apparently enough of the jurors in his case had fully absorbed the lessons of Oprah Winfrey and the other bien pensant arbiters of taste and decorum to cast a gimlet eye on Mr. Moussaoui.
He came from a broken home, we learn. His parents were tough on him, it is said. He suffered from slings and arrows of outrageous racism as he grew up in France, we find. All in all, his wretched beginnings make him a victim and therefore somehow undeserving of the ultimate sanction.
Goodness. What an insult to the millions, even billions of other people who endured hardship, squalor and bad treatment without resorting to vengeance on a cosmic scale. Why do the right thing when you can hang with a death cult and allow thousands of non-combatants to be slaughtered on a clear bright Tuesday afternoon. Why have remorse? Osama was right, Moussaoui finds - we may not have the nerve to do what it takes to stop him. If one day you find yourself living under Sharia law, remember May, 2006, when we lost the nerve to fight an existential threat.
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