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Carol Platt Liebau: Shutting Guantanamo
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — Well, well. MSNBC tells us that "the world" welcomes news that President Obama will close Guantanamo . As a "citizen of the world," surely this will make the new President's heart beat faster with joy. For the rest of us, however, it's sobering. Where, exactly, does the new President propose that the collection of terrorists -- an increasing number of whom, the Pentagon disclosed a week ago, are returning to the battlefield --go? Do we really want jihadists in prisons, mixing with and radicalizing the general prison population, in Kansas and other maximum ...

As Washington Parties, Obama Saves America
Politics Daily — ... * With the stroke of his pen, our new president ordered the closing of the Guantanamo Bay torture prison in Cuba. He brought freedom to Cuba! ...

Carol Platt Liebau: What "World Opinion" Is Worth
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — ... to their new "host" countries -- in other words, so long as it's certain they're not terrorists. So let me get this straight: "The world" applauds Barack Obama's plan to close down Guantanamo. That means, of course, that the prisoners have to go somewhere. That means that, according to "the world," it's A-OK -- nay, even desirable -- for Americans to have Islamic terrorists roosting within the borders of their country. But for the EU? Nah, not so much. It's not apparently enough that the US is the country who has actually caught the terrorists, thereby taking them out ...