Posted by
ApolloSpeaks on Monday, November 23, 2009 9:02:58 AM
Master Narcissismos
Bush be damned! I and I alone will be the one to slay Khalid Sheik Mohammed
Lildoc posted an interesting comment on this blog the other day* where he speculated that Obama’s motives for sending Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to trial in New York were personal as much as political. He wrote that in ordering a civilian trial for the 9/11 mastermind and four accomplices Obama wants to "link the memories of 9-11 to his presidency;" and that he is jumping on Bush's "9/11 bandwagon," attempting by so doing to muscle in on his wartime achievements for his reelection and legacy. The legacy angle hadn’t occurred to me, or anyone else for that matter. But given Obama's malignant narcissism (a dangerous mental disorder in a president) it makes perfectly good sense and is, I believe, his overarching reason for the trial.
*See "Panic in New York" below.
For driving Obama's decision to try KSM as a common criminal in civilian court is not the quest for justice which could have been served in military court where Khalid wanted to plead guilty and die; nor was building an embarrassing case against Bush and Cheney for war crimes his central motive as many on the Right surmise*. Behind the decision of this incompetent, reckless, fatally flawed man was his overweening hubris and extreme self-love-his thirst for glory and the building of his presidential legacy. In truth, KSM is close as Obama is likely to get to bringing Osama bin Ladin to justice and he's not letting this opportunity go to waste.
*This can’t be Obama’s main reason for transferring KSM to civilian court. Unless Obama is completely unhinged it serves no real purpose as there would be no legal or criminal repercussions for Bush and Cheney resulting from this trial. Moreover, terrorist attack in New York or not, this trial can only backfire on Obama-and the soft-on-terror Left-in the court of public opinion. As most Americans are okay with the Bush administration’s practice of water boarding al Qaida thugs their numbers will likely multiply when KSM brags in court about his crimes, and boasts that if he could go back in time he would have planned it so that more Americans had died.
Where is the gain and glory for Obama in trying KSM by Military Tribunal as Bush wanted to do? Narcissist that he is such a trial would be useless to Obama and his legacy. Though the architect of 9/11 was captured and jailed during the Bush years Obama wants history to remember him as the one dispensing justice to this man and his friends. A military trial, Bush’s way, would have been closed to public scrutiny with no accolades for Obama once these terrorists were convicted, sentenced and put to death. Now the trial will be in everyone's face broadcast around the globe from the media capital of the world-blocks from Ground Zero-with Obama's thumbprint stamped all over it. Obama, in short, has hijacked KSM from Bush’s War on Terror co-opting the entire prosecutorial process to advance his vainglorious needs and self-serving ends. Bush and his military trial be damned! “I will select the prosecutors venue not Khalid Sheik Mohammed [or anyone else].” said an arrogant Eric Holder on behalf of his boss to the Senate Judiciary Committee*. And now we know why. This is going to be an Obama trial meeting out Obama justice, not Bush justice or the justice that KSM wants. The upcoming terror trials will be political theater at its worst and most dangerous with our narcissist in chief, the producer of the show, looking for a Tony.
*Senator Graham’s questioning made Holder look like a first year law student.
After Bush robbed Obama of the glory of ending the Iraq War by negotiating a schedule for troop withdrawal he wasn’t going to let KSM slip through his hands; Obama alone will put an end to this man; it will be Obama’s trial, conviction and execution-his 9/11 victory for his presidential library and legacy “linking 9/11 memories to his presidency,” as Lildoc says. As Obama’s presidency crashes and burns and expectations of greatness grow dim he sees himself leaving office with few achievements and trophies and wants Khalid’s terrorist head to be one of them.
As I’ve been saying from the start of Obama’s hopeless presidency we have a man of staggering blindness, immaturity and stupidity in the White House; the Michael Jackson of American politics (see ); a moral and mental midget unfit to command with no clear notion of the public good or comprehension of our nation’s security needs-willing to chance the mass murder of more New Yorkers to please his damnable narcissism.
In sum, the reckless idea of a Ground Zero trial for KSM was born from a union of BDS and NPD (Bush Derangement Syndrome and Obama’s Narcissistic Personality Disorder)-a lethal combination callously and irresponsibly creating a security nightmare for the people of New York as al-Qaida secretly plans a new day of death in honor of Khalid.