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0 Left 0 Centered 0 RightPresident Obama is relenting on military-commission trials, and the New York Times is, shall we say, chagrined. The administration’s retreat can be chalked up to the political climate proximately created by two developments. The first is Congress’s prohibition against the transfer of terrorist detainees from Gitmo to the United States, which makes giving them the bells-’n’-whistles civilian trials preferred by the president and his Justice Department impractical. On th...