The terrorists next door

by Will Bunch | Columnist

Published Jan. 25, 2009, 11:52 p.m. ET

Glenn Greenwald takes a whack at some of the most inane chatter in the first week of the new Obama administration -- the idea that the United States of America can't handle the incarceration of alleged anti-U.S. terrorists on our own soil.

National Review's Jim Geraghaty spent all day yesterday fantasizing about all the scary things that could happen if we have Al-Qaeda Terrorists in our communities

All of this is pure fear-mongering -- the 2009 version of Condoleezza Rice's mushroom cloud and Jay Rockefeller's "we'll-lose-our-eavesdropping-capabilities" cries.

— (near nuclear facilities and airports!).

Read the whole thing, and then explain to me -- because I don't get it -- what terrible thing happens if Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and a few of his ilk get placed in the super-max prison in Florence, Colorado (pictured at top) -- they call it super-max for a reason, you know? Should alleged terrorists be tried in the normal federal court system? -- that's a legitimate topic for debate, and longtime readers know where I stand. But the fear that we can't successful incarcerate these people here in America? Do you have that little faith in your country?