My good friend A Jacksonian has an excellent post which I recommend you click on at this point, before going further.
In the meantime, I wondered what the affect would be on our military personnel upon hearing or reading of the new SCOTUS decision. From Polipundit:
Thursday, June 29th, 2006(FLASH) Instrument of Surrender Signed by SCOTUS
This morning, the United States of America signed the instrument of surrender with al Queda and all affiliated terror organizations. The signatories representing the United States were Anthony Kennedy, Steven Bryer, John Paul Stevens, Ruth Ginsburg and David Souter.
The reason for this unconditional surrender was that while the Supreme Court Justices “support the troops” and particpate in drives to send old magazines to soldiers, they do not “Trust the Troops.”
In addition, this was a total rebuke of Chief Justice John Roberts whose lower court ruling was overturned.
Justice Stevens wrote the opinion. Terrorists have Geneva protection.
I only wish that this was sarcasm. These individuals have no idea what they have done.
I wasted 12 months of my life in Afgahnistan for this.
Support by the military in the GWOT is going to collapse.
UPDATE: This opinion will go from a ripple to a wave throughout the uniformed military. We were slapped by John McCain last December. Today, we are slapped by the Supreme Court. This afternoon, I am removing myself from the volunteer list at Human Resources Command-St. Louis to re-deploy. I will not be the only one.
There were also e-mails to PP, which included:
“$%^& the supreme court. They have no idea what we are going through. Major xxxxxxxxx”
“My third tour for what? SHIT!!! Captain xxxxxxxxxx”
“I want to go home to my family now. Master Sergeant xxxxxxxxx”
The Corner’s Andy McCarthy said:
Make no mistake: if this happens, the Supreme Court will have dictated that we now have a treaty with al Qaeda — which no President, no Senate, and no vote of the American people would ever countenance. (Compare this.) The Constitution consigns treaty-making to the political branches, not the courts, but a conclusion that Geneva protects Hamdan (and, by extension, his fellow savages) would ominously mean that the courts, under the conveniently malleable guise of “customary international law” can rewrite treaties to mean whatever they like them to mean.
I know that some have said “Wait BZ, calm down, all is not lost; the President has said nothing will yet occur though the law will be obeyed — and that perhaps it will ‘merely’ take Congress to make the right moves to satiate the SCOTUS.”
I still fear for my country, my fellow citizens and the brave American soldiers overseas.
ALREADY this ruling is having an affect on their morale and, moreover, their willingness to sacrifice for this country.
And I cannot now blame their reticence.
BZ