Bingo.

It makes no sense to come up with a post about the Moussaoui trial when a couple of my favorite bloggers nail the topic on the head much better than I would have. So, what they said...

The Rude Pundit

...The Rude Pundit has no pity for Zacharias Moussaoui, who should be locked up in the basement of Bedlam in a straitjacket and rubber room where he can shit himself and mutter endlessly about Allah wantin' him to go all jihad on Western asses. He is merely the lastest in an eons-long line of deluded wannabe religious martyrs, from every goddamn faith. To execute Moussaoui would be something akin to lashing a masochistic thief - sure, it might make you feel better, make you feel like you're doin' something for the greater good, but, really, you're just givin' him exactly what he wants. That's not to mention the whole "barbarism" factor of capital punishment, but we're not allowed to discuss that anymore, are we.

No, fuck Moussaoui. The Rude Pundit wonders at what point does the jury in the Zacharias Moussaoui trial get to stop being tortured? If this was being done to prisoners at Gitmo, we'd be up in arms. 'Cause the trial's gonna end, soon, and they're gonna leave that locked room, and then we have a dozen or so people who have to go on with their lives hearing the echoes of those cries, those screams, closing their eyes and seeing those corpses. And for what good? In the end, none. Just another stage in our ongoing fetishization of 9/11, our American mourning that we're never allowed to move on from.

G

...I also don't think that his death will accomplish anything. He's on trial for not speaking up about 9/11 before it happened, thus failing to prevent it. Our own government did the same thing. Should they all be on trial, too? What good does any of this do? We hear more details about the horror of 9/11 - something that we would collectively never forget, even if we were allowed to, which we won't; get ready for two 9/11 movies coming out - and I can't help but wonder if this in the forefront of the news is all about refreshing the rationale behind the foreign policy decisions made by this administration. Fighting terror and religious zealotry with war and crusader's fervor...