"....I do think that what's pathetic about all Western countries, including the United States, including France, including Canada, and a lot of other countries, is that they (legislative bodies, parliaments, etc.) make these sort of high school sophist arguments about terrorism, as if it's some sort of theoretical debate. It's not. We're dealing with a very difficult situation here. And if you accord to terrorists all the rights of somebody who gets arrested for holding up a liquor store in Des Moines, you are going to lose to the terrorists, because when you accord them the full rights of somebody who is a criminal, you make it impossible to prosecute this as a war, which is what it is."

--- Mark Steyn (in an interview with Hugh Hewitt.) Transcript available at Radio Blogger.