It may be time for a mandatory retirement statute.

Sloanasaurus in the comments to Ann Althouse's blog on Hamdan makes this simple yet trenchant point:

[S]aying that the terrorists are protected by the Geneva convention is absurd. For treaties to have meaning you must have two sides.

What business to signatories to those treaties have making rules for al Qaeda? And are we obligated to honor the treaty as to enemies who treat our nationals they capture as hostages and then behead them on camera?

It seems that our Supreme Court is engaged in some asymmetrical warfare of its own, by disarming the U.S. unilaterally. This is what happens when one makes a fetish of civil liberties, and ignores the rest of the Constitution, particularly the Preamble. They have resorted to legal squirmery to avoid the plain, common sense meaning of the Constitution. Kennedy, and his predilections for laws and rulings by foreign jurisdictions, strikes again.