The Times has an outraged - for the Times - op-ed today about the folly of trying alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in Guantanamo.

Last year, Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. described a federal court trial for the self-professed mastermind of Sept. 11 attacks, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, as “the defining event of my time as attorney general.” On Monday, Mr. Holder’s dream for demonstrating the power of the American court system crumbled when he announced that the trial would take place not in New York City or anywhere in the United States but before a military commission at the Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, prison camp.

Not only is this decision by the administration a less than sterling moment for our vaunted system of justice, it overlooks one stark issue:the need for New Yorkers to have closure and a measure of retribution.

Nobody who witnessed the attacks will ever forget them. What gets overlooked is that a large number of New Yorkers suffered from PTSD in direct consequence of the attack.

If you get mugged on the street, odds are, you'll get to face your attacker in court. But if some savages fly civilian planes into civilian buildings in your home town, apparently, a different standard applies.

Where's the justice in that?