Rights of enemy combatants
Rich Lowry:
"...News accounts have played the Supreme Court's decision to consider whether U.S. courts have jurisdiction over Guantanamo as a setback to the Bush administration's position that the courts have nothing to do with it. 'An unmistakable rebuff, according to The New York Times.
This is media wishful thinking that coincides with a new vogue for the rights of 'enemy combatants' in the Democratic Party. Al Gore recently unleashed the U-bomb ('un-American') to characterize the handling of captured Taliban fighters: 'The Bush administration's treatment of American citizens it calls 'enemy combatants' is nothing short of un-American.'
"...What the Bush critics are implicitly proposing is an extension of rights so far-reaching that it would undermine the executive's ability to wage war.
Since the Supreme Court reviewed the decision of a wartime tribunal that convicted German enemy combatants, it is hardly remarkable that the court might claim the right to review the ultimate disposition of these enemy combatants, but if opponents of the administration want them freed all they have to do is get al Qaeda to call off its war with the US. See however, the post below.
Rich Lowry:
"...News accounts have played the Supreme Court's decision to consider whether U.S. courts have jurisdiction over Guantanamo as a setback to the Bush administration's position that the courts have nothing to do with it. 'An unmistakable rebuff, according to The New York Times.
This is media wishful thinking that coincides with a new vogue for the rights of 'enemy combatants' in the Democratic Party. Al Gore recently unleashed the U-bomb ('un-American') to characterize the handling of captured Taliban fighters: 'The Bush administration's treatment of American citizens it calls 'enemy combatants' is nothing short of un-American.'
"...What the Bush critics are implicitly proposing is an extension of rights so far-reaching that it would undermine the executive's ability to wage war.
Since the Supreme Court reviewed the decision of a wartime tribunal that convicted German enemy combatants, it is hardly remarkable that the court might claim the right to review the ultimate disposition of these enemy combatants, but if opponents of the administration want them freed all they have to do is get al Qaeda to call off its war with the US. See however, the post below.
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