It's Not A Pretend War

I'm trying to wrap my head around the part of the Hamdan ruling where non-uniformed terrorists who never signed the Geneva Conventions are entitled to protections they will not offer themselves--either to the captured soldiers they torture or the civilians they blow up.

There's plenty of commentary out there  more sophisticated than anything I can offer. For now I'll say only that the justices must have the same false sense of security shared by many other Americans. This truly is the downside of President Bush's success in the war against Islamofascism. If  757s were crashing into the Empire State Building or One First Street N.E., I can't believe they would have blundered like this.

UPDATE: Since I expressed some, er, skepticism about a flag-amendment editorial posted by NRO, it's only right that I cite their latest on the Hamdan decision, An Outrage:

The Supreme Court’s decision to impose by judicial fiat a treaty that no politically accountable official would dare propose — a one-sided compact wherein the United States gives elevated due process to al Qaeda’s terrorists while they continue slaughtering civilians and torturing their captives to death — is an abomination....

True and right and depressing.