Ours Aren't

Luis Posada was released from jail yesterday.  News easy to miss what with the VT killings and AG AG playing the buffoon all day.  Posada's release was disappointing news, and casts the US in a bad light.  Posada is a murderer.  He has blown up a civilian airline, and planted bombs at hotels.  He has been implicated in assassination efforts.  He is, in the word of our current war, a terrorist.  There is no real doubt about any of it, and certainly sufficient evidence to hold and prosecute.  Indeed, a good deal more than has been mustered for most of those in Gitmo. The US has a terrorist in custody and chooses not to extradite.  (He blew up a Cuban airliner carrying the students and athletes) or to Venezuela (where he tried to blow up a hotel).  The US could prosecute the terrorist acts here.  No. He is released instead.  What the US will prosecute him for is lying on immigration documents.  I do not see how that shows any commitment to law, or, well, you can fill in the list.  Is it that our terrorists aren't?  Is it that Cuban and Guyanese nationals are not really people?  What justification could there be for this?