Obama's political life hinges upon KSM trial? Pat thinks so

This, my friends, is how you write a column.

In a recent WorldNet Daily column, Pat Buchanan lays out the political ramifications of the Justice Department's decision to give a civilian trial to 9-11 conspirator Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

Buchanan writes:

For if we are at war, why is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed headed for trial in federal court in the Southern District of New York? Why is he entitled to a presumption of innocence and all of the constitutional protections of a U.S. citizen?

Is it possible we have done an injustice to this man by keeping him locked up all these years without trial? For that is what this trial implies – that he may not be guilty.

And if we must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that KSM was complicit in mass murder, by what right do we send Predators and Special Forces to kill his al-Qaida comrades wherever we find them? For none of them has been granted a fair trial.

And then there's this:

In America, trials often become games, where the prosecution, though it has truth on its side, loses because it inadvertently breaks one of the rules.

The Obamaites had best pray that does not happen, for they may be betting his presidency on the outcome of the game about to begin.

This is a mistake, in my opinion, with the potential to be a calamity for Obama. Honest to God, I don't know who is advising this man.