Hamdan: What the ruling says--and what it doesn't say.

OpinionJournal - Extra
"Overall, the administration should immediately respond to Hamdan by revising its military-commission rules, conforming them to courts-martial practice where possible (and properly justifying such departures as may be necessary), or by seeking congressional action to make clear that military-commission rules need not be the same as those applicable in courts-martial. Indeed, as these are not mutually exclusive remedies, the pursuit of both options would make very good sense. More fundamentally, however, the administration should stick to its guns on the fundamental question whether the U.S. is fighting a war with al Qaeda secure in the knowledge that the Supreme Court has, and continues, to validate the legal basis of this conflict." Read on.