ENOUGH WITH THE "PROSE STYLIST" THING, BILL:

Making Way for Jihad (William F. Buckley, 1 October 2006, Universal Press Syndicate)

The scene in Washington, in a word, was as follows. The president, who is commander in chief of our armed forces and, as such, principal agent of the national security, took to Congress an impasse. It had been created by the Supreme Court. Exercising, quite properly, its authority to opine on deviations from past constitutional practice having to do with human rights, the court ruled that we could not legitimately proceed, as we have been doing in Guantanamo, to detain foreigners for interrogation and other purposes without reference to such constitutional narrative as is implicit under habeas corpus. That doctrine specifies that the American citizen is the master of his own movements -- putting the burden of respecting that sovereignty on the government.

What the heck was he trying to say?

Posted by Pepys at October 1, 2006 11:17 PM