Editorial

Let justice be done

Aw, one of Tehran's top mullahs and the one responsible for carrying out its nuclear agreement with this country has complained that Americans are much too concerned about the victims of its terrorism rather than its perpetrators.

It seems our Supreme Court has ruled that Congress may indeed compensate American families for Tehran's assault on the U.S. Marines' barracks in Beirut back in 1983. Yes, the wheels of justice may grind slowly but exceeding fine--and indeed just did. But these terrorists in turbans needn't expect any sympathy from this quarter; we have more than enough for their victims, who have been denied justice all these years.

There are those who would argue that justice should be the same for all, terrorist and those terrorized. This they call equality. Or as Anatole France put it: "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread." That is a sure recipe not for justice but its opposite. Justice, they say, should be blind. Must it be stupid, too?

Editorial on 05/03/2016

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