Thursday, June 23, 2005

So what if closing Gitmo lets hundreds of jihadists out of their prison cages and into their terror cells?

…so what if closing Gitmo lets hundreds of jihadists out of their prison cages and into their terror cells?
asks Diana West rhetorically.
"Sure, a few may come back to haunt us," writes [the New York Times' Thomas] Friedman. But being haunted — which presumably requires some additional number of American dead to do the haunting — is apparently a risk worth taking in order to win the war.

I'm not talking about the so-called "war on terror." It seem there's been a change in focus. Islamic jihad is out. The war on "image" is in. And, according to the anti-Gitmo-nists, we're getting creamed. Go figure: "They" kill people over a soggy Quran, and "we" lose the image war -- and all over the world…

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