You have the right to remain silent. You have the right to an attorney. You have the right to blow up American airplanes.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the would-be-bomber of an American airplane on Christmas Day, is being treated like he held up a candy store. As Charles Krauthammer said so well in his recent column ^[1], this is nuts!

I agree with Krauthammer that Abdulmutallab should be in military custody. He should be treated as an enemy combatant and he should be detained and interrogated by the U.S. military in Guantanamo.

The Obama administration should leave the Guantanamo prison open for business as long as al-Qaeda is in business.

“This is a fanatical religious sect dedicated to establishing the most oppressive medieval theocracy,” Krauthammer writes in his column. “And therefore committed to unending war with America not just because it is infidel but because it represents modernity with its individual liberty, social equality (especially for woman) and profound tolerance (religious, sexual, philosophical). You going to change that by evacuating Guantanamo?”

Of course not.