Of course the left-wing media is insisting that Tsarnaev was working alone and dismissing that they were funded by Muslim extremists and Jihadists. There is no reason why they shouldn't be tried as war criminals.
Yeah, that's true. The only people saying Breivik was acting alone is right wingers. Just right.. err, no. It was an act of terrorism in the United States. It is a federal (and probably also state) crime that is punishable by some considerable penalty, which is set by the sentencing authority of a civilian court.
To turn your argument around, there is literally NO reason why they should be tried as war criminals. I'm not even sure the Geneva convention is even applicable to domestic terrorism, but I suppose it might theoreticly be. From where did this idea of trying it as a 'war crime' or trying it in any other way than Timothy McVeigh was tried spring? Out of thing air?
It's not impossible he was funded or supported by a third party. But I haven't seen any evidence of it, neither have I seen any indication of it. I did read something about the sum total cost of the attack (in monetary terms, investment wise) was less than two people would have as a take home income in a month. That's hardly the scale of even McVeigh, and he was acting alone, wasn't he? Breiviks attacks were even more costly. And he acted alone.
Notice I'm not saying that because he's a left winger and I'm a left winger. He's a right wing nut job and a mass murderer. And he was tried in a perfectly normal court of law.
WHY do you want to make this arsehole something special? What on earth has compelled you to believe he should be afforded the special treatment you seem to want to give him?!
This is merely my opinion regardless of what the discuss was in the last couple of pages. By even acknowledging that this was done by any Islamic radical Jihadist group, the left will be quick to call you a racist or a bigot.
Who's doing that? Codswallop.
I will call it rather ignorant, though. And a little bit paranoid, perhaps.