The Hamden decision is yesterday's news now, and as useful as a dead cat, but Chris Floyd is S M O K I N this morning:

The Defense Department repeated that view on Thursday, asserting that the court's sweeping ruling against the tribunals did not undermine the government's argument that it can hold foreign suspects indefinitely and without charge, as "enemy combatants" in its declared war on terror.

So that's OK, then. Naturally, a ruling "against the government," doesn't affect the Pentagon – because Rumsfeld's Castle is a government unto itself, unbound by the petty chains of law that simpering civilians try to put around the lusty sinews of war-fightin' he-men. And of course, as the Pentagon notes, the most important thing is that the Bush Regime can continue its Nazi/Stalinist/al Qaeda/Vlad the Impaler/Ghenghis Khan/ Assyrian/ Babylonian/ Cro-Magnon policy of grabbing "suspects" and holding them "indefinitely without charge."

Really now: has there ever been a political faction that lived more in its own little fantasy world? Has there ever been such a collection of cowards who blustered so hysterically about their own macho all the time? How on God's earth did a great nation fall under the sway of such shallow fools?