Money quote(s):
"I have to say I can’t seem to work up any outrage."
If anything, this is psychological warfare (as distinct from public diplomacy) on the cheap.
(We'd already killed them, after all. Sunken costs, just like UBL's funeral.)
"(I)t is easier for civilized men to act like barbarians than for barbarians to act like civilized men, and plenty of events in Afghanistan illustrate this."
A good bit of basic (and advanced) combat training is designed deliberately to sandblast off a bit of that highly civilized behavior, the part about not killing people to be precise.
"CAIR is a bunch of pro-terrorist stooges. Everyone knows that. Okay, maybe not “a bunch,” as their membership is minuscule and I’m pretty sure their money comes mostly from abroad."
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