PanAm Flight 103

The outrageous, repulsive, and sickening decision of the Scottish government to release al-Megrahi from prison where he was serving a 27 year sentence for his part in the murder of 270 people on PanAm Flight 103 has plunged a dagger into the heart of those who fight against terrorists. Barack Obama has described this gross miscarriage of justice and wanton subversion of the rule of law as a "mistake".

Tame condemnations of monstrous injustice have become so commonplace from Obama that one is left wondering what he would call his decision, made the day after he took the oath of office when he swore to protect us from all enemies foreign and domestic, to suspend terrorist court proceedings against al-Nashiri who organised and directed the attack against the USS Cole in October of 2000 that murdered 17 U.S. sailors. I suspect we will have to wait eight more years for justice to be done as well as for Obama's answer. In the meantime, shame reigns supreme in the Scottish government, in 10 Downing Street, and has become a permanent fixture in the Oval Office.