Thursday, May 14, 2009

Nobody Wants A Terrorist For A Neighbor -- A Commentary

From The San Francisco Examiner:

President Barack Obama made a serious mistake when he decided to close the U.S. prison facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, without first figuring out where to put the 240 detainees held there. Most of these people are hard-core jihadists whose main goal in life is to kill Americans.

Obama can call it an “overseas contingency operation,” but for the Gitmo detainees it is a declared war against us and terrorism is their weapon of choice. Despite these realities, Obama seems determined to shut down Gitmo — even if that means transferring the detainees to less secure facilities in the U.S.

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