The beginning of my column today:

“Some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.”
That’s a line from the movie The Dark Knight. Maybe it’s because I’m just a comic-book-loving fool, but that’s the first thing that popped into my mind when I read the Gitmo Five’s statement.
“We are terrorists to the bone,” the Guantanamo detainees proclaimed. Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11, and his four comrades consider the charges that they slaughtered nearly 3,000 Americans to be “badges of honor, which we carry with pride.”