A posteriori

There will be a treasure of intelligence since law enforcement has caught one of the Boston marathon bombers alive. I find it to be very unusual since the Obama administration has kill instead of capture policy for enemy combatants. The only reason the terrorist is probably alive is that it was here the USA being captured live on television and in full view of the public. Imagine if this would have happened in or around Pakistan, this young man would have been at the receiving end of a Hellfire missle and on his way to meet Allah.

Senator Diane Feinstein had a Freudian slip and stated she wished the bomber would be treated as an enemy combatant last week. Which I agree with her 100%.  Unfortunately the Senator was forced to walk back her comments by some unknown touchy feely left winger. These men received training, intelligence and assistance from foreign forces for many years. This act was not a plot that was formulated here in the states but somewhere near Chechnya. The evidence points to Islamist who have proliferated the region to set up a separate Islamic state from Russia. Since this event was initiated outside of our country I believe we have the right to classify it under the war against Islamic radicals we have been waging since 9/11.

I am already hearing some Libertarian voices speaking against the suspension of his Miranda rights with the public safety exemption. Then I am seeing Memes with former president George Bush amd Dick Cheney that say, "You get the board, I'll get the water". I understand my Libertarian friends despise war and anything that has to do with it.

Our way, Realism, understands that there are people and cultures who want to destroy our way of life and that any chance we have to protect it we will use any means necessary. Does a realistic government have  limits and boundaries? The boundaries are set by each individual or by individual groups acting in cooperation. A prime directive of Realism dictates that the cooperative can act against an individual with it's full might when the individual acts to infringe on each individuals free will or freedom. Once you commit and act like this you forfeit your own rights under the system until you cease the action or make amends to restore others rights.

With that said I will cheap in a few bucks for a charter plain for the bomber to Guantanamo since there's a sequester.