According to the AP, the self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be sent to New York to face trial in a civilian federal court. (Why you’d want to have a trial of the “self-proclaimed” 9/11 mastermind is odd in itself.) Here was the President’s reaction:

President Barack Obama said it was a legal and national security matter. “I am absolutely convinced that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be subjected to the most exacting demands of justice,” Obama said

What the heck does that mean? The only thing one can be absolutely certain of in a trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is that it will be a three ring circus, 24/7 on TV, with each inanity covered intensely by a bunch of well coiffed C students on camera.

This Obama is one strange bird. The things that he has “absolute” certainty about are things where the word “absolute” makes no sense. They are of indeterminate outcome and off in the future.

Contrast that with Obama’s very public dithering about Afghanistan (see the AP’s treatment of this for a chuckle), where the effects of any decision could be measured relatively quickly and where any decision is a choice among lousy options. The man dithers where choices are hard, and speaks authoritatively when outcomes are gauzy and in the distance. What else do you expect from a college professor?

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