Your leader on the American plan to set up military commissions for the trials of terrorist suspects is right on the mark “Unjust, Unwise, UnAmerican,” July 12, 2003). As you argue, George Bush’s tack is likely to be counter-productive, as well. But it will undoubtedly be counter-productive in one area Bush neglects at his country’s peril: the goodwill associated with its name. It is evaporating at a clip, and not only in Europe. Badwill is around the corner.