{"id":119,"date":"2001-10-02T19:16:00","date_gmt":"2001-10-02T23:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=119"},"modified":"2001-10-02T19:16:00","modified_gmt":"2001-10-02T23:16:00","slug":"holiday-in-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2001\/10\/02\/19\/16\/holiday-in-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday in the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know, if I was Bin Laden I&#8217;d get out of Afghanistan and run quickly to a country with a strong policy on lawful extradition, such as Sweden or Switzerland. That way, Colin Powell would have to present his evidence to the local courts and Bin Laden&#8217;s lawyers could fight it all the way. The legal battle could stretch 3-5 years. After all, the US has been trying to extradite some of the Embassy bombers for years now.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think a military strike to pre-empt the course of justice can realistically be taken against anyone except pariah states using a weird combination of aggression, racism, and disdain.<\/p>\n<p>After all, as that Salon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/feature\/2001\/09\/29\/democracy\/print.html\">article<\/a> points out, when fanatical Irish-American groups in the US were funding a massive terrorist campaign against Britain throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Britain did not (surprise, surprise!) threaten the US with military intervention.<\/p>\n<p>And despite its best legal efforts, very few terrorists were ever extradited and very few of their supporters sanctioned legally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, if I was Bin Laden I&#8217;d get out of Afghanistan and run quickly to a country with a strong policy on lawful extradition, such as Sweden or Switzerland. That way, Colin Powell&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}