Piercing the veil of Timespeak, Jules Crittenden rewrites the New York Times' latest op-ed in much more down-to-earth terms:

The president’s decision hardly ends this egregious behavior by a leading pillar of the national press. We intend to keep it up. But among other things, the public needs to know why, for more than five years, the New York Times has consistently sided with America’s enemies.

This is because, even though we at the New York Times editorial board live in and around New York, scene of the most horrific and unprovoked attack on innocent American civilians ever, we still don’t see what the big deal is.

We consider this “War on Terror” … or more precisely, as the president says, “War on Turr” … to be a police matter that should be handled more or less as one deals with a common criminal.

Criminals are often socially disadvantaged young men, frequently with substance abuse problems, who come from broken homes where they were unloved and mistreated. We do not seek to punish such people. We consider it more effective to try to understand them. What are their social needs? What motivates them to rob us, pummel us, rape us, and murder us? Is it something we did? Is there something we can do that will make them less angry? We need to ask ourselves … why do they hate us?

Nor should we attempt to tap their telephones or read their email, because even the most reprehensible criminal has civil rights. Many, many, many civil rights. And in the case of international terrorists, who don’t always enjoy these rights, the observance of those rights that we consider to be important are incontrovertibly of greater importance than removing criminals from the global “street.” Thousands of innocent people may be regrettably taken captive, humiliated, blown up, decapitated, gassed or simply shot without respect for their civil rights. But the society that does not create a special class of civil rights for the people who commit these acts, when those people don’t enjoy the protection of the United States Constitution, because they dwell overseas or are targeted by legal law enforcement and intelligence actions, will be a society that is markedly less pleasant.

But it is more than that.