I often wonder how Paul Jay, of The Real News, can keep up with current events: he has an astonishing grasp of more current events that I could ever hope to keep up with! But, here, in this otherwise very informative interview regarding the Canadian, Guantanamo captive Omar Khadr, he seems to slip a bit when he does not appear to focus on the crux of the issue–that the United States is prosecuting a child soldier!

Carol Rosenberg reins back the discussion, but the clutter of concocted American (as opposed to international) legalisms inevitably leads them stray, away from the essence of this ominous American exceptionalism.

Juridical sleights of hand are an old habit, though, for this empire. Regarding its very foundation, Alexis de Tocqueville wrote:

the conduct of the United States Americans towards the natives was inspired by the most chaste affection for legal formalities. [...] It is impossible to destroy men with more respect to the laws of humanity.

Whatever they wanted, they simply changed the laws to get it!

Anyone familiar with the horrors inflicted by child soldiers in Africa will wonder, and fear, what may happen next. After the US War of Terror began, numerous countries used it as justification for their boots on various human beings. Here, this most draconian maze; this cruel, unusual retribution; this American Sharia, may have equally crushing portents for other children helplessly led to war zones.