So after years and years of doing nothing with the detainees at Guantanamo, the Bush administration decides to launch the “al Qaeda trials” — which the administration is comparing to Nuremberg — during this stretch of the political campaign season.
These trials will benefit the hawkish McCain on is own side of the aisle where many Republicans are still skeptical of the seriousness of his conservatism — but the trials will also diminish some of the gap between the pro-war right and the ambivalent national security nationalists on the left.
In other words, the launch of the al Qaeda trials is a huge political gift to John McCain.
— Steve Clemons
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