"Every prisoner deserves to be treated humanely."

The only way to do that would be to let them go.

"Yousef said he expected the death penalty, but instead received life."

I would submit that at the end of the day, Death would be the more humane method of punishment.

"Applying different standards of justice because of your emotions about the convict is, in one word, unprofessional."

Is Yousef held to a different standard than other people kept in soliatary. Given his connection to Al Quaeda, maybe the answer is to put him in Camp Echo at Gitmo.

Maybe the answer is to put him in General Population at leavenworth. See how he likes being around others then? And that may be a big part of it. Just keeping other prisoners from making Yousef into their GF.

"For example, 9/11 was a reaction to US troops in the Middle East."

And Pearl Harbor was a reaction to US policies introduced against japan that precluded them from being able to create a greater Asian Empire. So I'm not sure if you were trying to make a valid statement or not.

"How far back do you want to go? 1979? 1953? Crusades?"

How about even firther. To the days when the region was comprised of Christians and Jews. Perhaps it is they who should be ramming aircraft into buildings, protesting the fact that, not only are there Muslims occupying Christian lands, but that they have pushed everyone else out.

Try and celebrate Christmas Mass in Jeddah.

"Evil is too abstract a term. I prefer psychopath. And I agree that no amount of love or compassion shown to you will get you to stop hating. That change has to come from within."

Evil has nothing to do with it. Yousef probably doesn't get up in the morning and congratulate himself on how 'eeeeeevil he is'. He did what he did to achieve a stated political ends. We do the same thing. The only difference is we go out of our way to avoid civilian casualties, while they try and maximize them.

"U.S. government and against Israel, are more than terrorists; you are the one who invented terrorism and using it every day."

The US (and most other countries, including Israel) abide by the Geneva Conventions and the Laws of Armed Conflict when employing weapons as a means of achieving a desired end-state. Terrorists do not.

If they did, they wouldn't be terrorists.

"The Bush & Obama Govts killed over a million Innocent People in the Middle East in their "ILLEGAL" Oil Wars and Wars of Aggression plus they've BLOWN over a $Trillion Dollars (so far) in US Taxpayer Money (money that was & is sorely needed in the increasingly destitute USA) ...Plus as an added bonus of these Totalitarian Policies,Americans have LOST or are rapidly LOSING most of their Civil & Constitutional Rights! Bush & Obama definitely are a Hard Act to Follow!"

That's nothing compared to the number of Germanics or Nipponese that FDR, and later Truman, killed during WWII. Or the number that Woodrow Wilson killed during WWI. Or that Linclon killed during the US civil war.

And those numbers pale in comparison to the executions and mass murders carried out by communists. Lenin ordered more deaths in his first week in power than the Czarist regime had ordered over the previous hundred year. Stalin and Mao went even further. Che and Castro killed fewer people, but only because there were fewer to kill.