To the editor:

As the politicians cower under their desks in Washington, we are being told by them that it is undesirable to transport the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the United States for trial. The one thing they, our elected representatives in Washington, D.C., do not understand is that we must bring them to the United States for trial.

We must to show the world and the jihadists that we are made of sterner stuff, that we will use our legal system to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to an American court, to allow American justice, an American jury, on American soil, in front of the world population, that we do not fear the jihadists and that we will not be intimidated into hiding our legal system on foreign soil.