Excerpting from the post on the TPM main page, Sen. Webb said, in part,

"Those who have committed acts of international terrorism are enemy combatants, just as certainly as the Japanese pilots who killed thousands of Americans at Pearl Harbor. It will be disruptive, costly, and potentially counterproductive to try them as criminals in our civilian courts. "

This drives me crazy.  Terrorists are criminals, period, paragraph, the end.  They should be tried as such, the only effective way to combat terrorism has always been through law enforcement methods.  The military option against terrorism only works in limited SWAT-type operations. Calling terrorists "enemy combatants," is as much as calling them soldiers, which is how they want themselves to be viewed.  Senator Webb and others who think about this issue the way he does, and there are many, are starting by handing the terrorists a huge PR victory by calling them soldiers, and proceeding from there to try to combat them from a framework that doesn't work.

The fact that these suspects will be tried in a civilian court, suggests that maybe the administration gets it.  We can only hope, and hope that they will start making that point more explicitly.