Information is the primary weapon in this new conflict. We should not deprive our military and intelligence agencies of the flexibility to prevent another attack.

Even though President Barack Obama will certainly nominate a liberal to the Supreme Court, he could still nominate a jurist who believes in judicial restraint, unlike Justice John Paul Stevens.

Judicial overconfidence in intruding into war decisions could produce more Abu Ghraibs in combat zones and remove our most effective means of preventing future terrorist attacks.

During the bitter controversy over the military commission bill, which President Bush signed into law on Tuesday, most of the press and the professional punditry missed the big story.

In its decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld rejecting President Bush's military commissions for the trial of al-Qaeda terrorists, the Supreme Court made a number of missteps.

To pretend that the Geneva Convention applies to al Qaeda, a non-state actor that targets civilians and disregards other laws of war, denies the reality of the war on terror.

Although his campaign themes often sound like second-guessing,John Kerry seems never to second-guess himself. Whatever he did, he is proud of it, even if he has to misrepresent it.

Since the beginning of the bombing in Yugoslavia, Mr. McCain has made Mr. Clinton look like a deluded fan playing commander-in-chief.