[The] contemporary Republican Party is a party of medieval romanticism. Its disquisitions on when the human person begins are theological in character and rooted in assumptions even a lot of medievals would have questioned. Its faith that bankers would never steal from us and so do not need to be regulated is a form of mysticism that medievals would have applied to saints. And its fascination with arbitrary arrest and imprisonment and with torture more recalls the star chambers of yore than the deliberations at Philadelphia over 200 years ago.[...]
The Republican way of dealing with terrorists gave enormous propaganda tools to al-Qaeda.
[In announcing that some top al-Qaeda 9/11 conspirators will be tried by jury in New York,] Obama just took those propaganda tools away from the enemy and began the process of repairing America's reputation and its fidelity to its own ideals.
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