New York Governor David Paterson might be a tax-and-spend liberal with some of the lowest poll numbers imaginable, but even he can understand how moronic of a decision it was to move the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, to New York City.

Reports the New York Daily News:

Gov. Paterson on Monday joined the chorus of critics questioning the government’s plan to try Kalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other accused 9/11 terrorists in New York.

“This is not a decision that I would have made,” the governor said when asked about the upcoming federal trial of KSM and his four underlings.

“Our country was attacked on its own soil on Sept. 11, 2001, and New York was very much the epicenter of that attack,” Paterson said after an appearance at a groundbreaking ceremony for a new CUNY campus in East Harlem.

“Over 2,700 lives were lost,” he went on. “It’s very painful; we’re still having trouble getting over it. We still haven’t been able to rebuild that site, and having those terrorists tried so close to the attack is going to be an encumbrance on all of New Yorkers.”

Besides the emotional angle, there are a number of unnecessary risks involved in trying KSM and his cohorts in a civil court in New York City. What happens if the case is dismissed on a technicality? Does KSM get to walk free on the streets of New York? And even if he doesn’t go free in the end, New York is once again placed in the bullseye for terrorists looking to steal some of the spotlight from the trial.

This once again shows that opposition to the Obama Administration’s moronic decision isn’t some knee-jerk partisanship. Senator Jim Webb (D-WV) blasted the decision, Democratic Governor David Paterson has come out against it now, and even Secretary of State Hillary Clinton couldn’t bother working up a defense of the decision on Meet the Press yesterday.

That’s in addition to the chorus of Republicans, local politicians, former mayors, legal experts, and family members of 9/11 victims.

It’s pretty clear that the Obama Administration’s decision was moronic, unnecessary, and dangerous.