Hamdan: Is anyone starting to get the picture here?

We might just look back at yesterday's Supreme Court decision as a
watershed moment for the security of this country.

With the goody bag that government has become, I think that folks
have truly lost sight of what governments were created to do.

The first duty of government is the public defense. It is why
governments have been created throughout history and this
country is no exception. The government was created to defend
its citizenry from predators both foreign and domestic. If that
cannot be done well then how are we to expect success with
anything else government does?

When we become a country that cares more about the rights of
people who have demonstrated a willingness to do anything to
kill us over our own soldiers and citizenry, then we have a serious
problem.

The decision is a complicated one, and I would recommend
you read up on it at the Heritage Foundation . It is true that a
roadmap for Congress was provided within the decision, but
here is the problem -- there are fewer Members of Congress who
have served in the military than ever before in history. Their
approach to this CANNOT be a law enforcement solution.

These people are not gangbangers selling drugs and guns. They
were put into detention facilities off of a battlefield in a war zone...
trained in military tactics to kill our soldiers or to commit acts of
terror.

Ann Coulter was correct when she said the other day "Thank God
this didn't happen in World War II."

Amen.

I know the stories well from WWII because of my father, who was
an OSS agent. They had.....special ways.....of handling problems.
And thank God, indeed.

There are things that happen every day in the course of protecting
our nation from harm that the public would not want to hear about.
It ain't pretty, the job of protecting our country. But the outcry after
9/11 sure was a different tune, now wasn't it?

To the people who soil their hands every day with the unpleasantness of
protecting this country -- THANK YOU. And it would appear that your
job may get tougher in the coming years, thanks to the Supreme Court.

Anyone starting to catch on that the courts really are relevant to our
lives and who sits on the bench is critical to almost any issue we care
about -- including terrorism?