Al-Libi on Trial in the Big Apple a Function of Obama's Purposeful Blindness

Robert Spencer writes:

Obama wants al-Libi tried in federal court in New York City rather than held as an enemy combatant because it is his Administration’s policy that there is no enemy and no war. The iron dogma of the Obama White House is that there is no jihad against the United States; there is, rather, only a small collection of miscreants from an organization, al-Qaeda, that twists and hijacks the peaceful religion of Islam, and that is on the ropes.

If al-Libi went to Guantanamo, that legendary and despised torture chamber where prisoners must endure meals bereft of olives and honey and try to take their minds off their sufferings by popping in a Harry Potter DVD, the Obama Administration would be contradicting that iron dogma and tacitly admitting that there’s a war on – even, perish the thought, a war on terror. 

The Administration has declared that war over again and again; how embarrassing it would be to lock up a combatant in that war now, so long after it has been consigned to the dustbin of history...