I have written before about the sweetheart deal the Obama Administration is giving to the terrorist al-Marri. Here are comments on this from Powerline. I wondered why al-Marri was given such a good deal. I thought it was because Obama and Holder are just naturally predispositioned to be sympathetic to terrorists. Holder was involved in getting pardons for a lot of terrorists under the Clinton Administration, many of whom would not express regret for their past actions. (Holder also was instrumental in getting a pardon for the racketeer Marc Rich, who's ex-wife had contributed a lot of money to Clinton.) Obama and Holder also, I think, feel like al-Marri was mistreated because he was locked up for years without charges because Bush was fighting a war against terrorists. Powerline thinks, and I agree, that Obama and the Democrats (with a few exceptions like Lieberman) do not think there is a war with Muslim extremists, and that terrorism should be treated as a criminal matter. John Kerry voiced that opinion during the 2004 election when he said in effect that we should not have responded militarily to the 9/11 attacks, and that we should just "take the hits." If Obama turns al-Marri loose and he resumes his terrorist activities it will look very bad for Obama. Therefore I expect that al-Marri will be confined for at least a few years; long enough for him not to be a threat to Obama.