Shameful

To its eternal shame, the Senate Armed Services Committee has rejected the President's plan for terrorist tribunals.

For a thorough explication of why the objections of John McCain, Lindsay Graham and John Warner's objections are completely meritless, Andrew McCarthy's piece is a must-read.

The fact is that McCain, Graham and Warner have done nothing to enhance the chances of our own troops' security should they be captured by Al Qaeda. Terrorists, unfortunately, have been amply demonstrated to lack the chivalrous impulse to reciprocate courtesies demonstrated to them under the Geneva Convention or in any other context. Rather, they've only provided more grounds for the enemies of America to harass its investigators and the people who are trying to keep us safe by launching specious "war crimes" allegations.

John McCain had better pray there's no terrorist attack on this country that could have been forestalled by interrogation of a terrorist captive using methods he has opposed. Otherwise, his presidential ambitions are completely dead (even assuming that he hasn't annoyed so many Republicans that he's done as it is).