What Obama, Holder & Co. have done on "enemy combatants" is a somewhat more elaborate version of what they've done on Gitmo, rendition, state-secrets, interrogations, etc. ...
Essentially, we're no longer going to call our captives "enemy combatants" ... but we're still going to detain people without trial, and Obama claims the unilateral authority to decide who gets detained. ...
In sum, Bush's policies are validated, and Obama is banking that his base will be content with a few rhetorical crumbs. Of course they won't be — the ACLU, which is crazy but not stupid, is already blasting this move.
The ACLU is populated by a very smart group of people who have no concern about the result of their activities. Focused like a laser beam on their objectives: a totally secular society ruled by law, not custom, in which neither reason nor need is permitted as a course of action and only abstract rules, of the kind they prefer, apply. The ACLU is much like HAL, the crazed computer from “2001” who applied its logic to every situation ...resulting in death.
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