The heck with Geneva

Some on the right are predicably upset and disappointed about the Bush administration's apparent cave-in to the civil libertarians regards treatment of suspected AQ prisoners.

This was of course in response to the SCOTUS decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, and it will be left up to Congress to decide how to try prisoners. In the interim it may act to silence some critics, not to mention removing a democrat campaign talking point for the November elections.

And hey, maybe the enemy will respond positively and start living up to their end of Geneva, such as wearing identifiable uniforms; not hiding themselves or their ammo in neighborhoods, schools or mosques; not blowing up innocent people on public transportation; or not lopping off their prisoner's heads or sticking them with cordless drills. You know, sick stuff like this. We'll be eagerly awaiting bin Laden's audio reply on al Jazeera.

In the meantime the Ralph Peters vaporization strategy should be employed whenever possible.

After all, we blew away Mohammed Atef with a bomb shortly after 9/11, and got one of the Cole attack planners in Yemen using a hellfire missile launched from a Predator drone. We recently nailed Zarqawi and almost got Zawahiri. None of them had public defenders, trials, appeals or any such thing. I don't recall much outrage, do you?