Maybe Ed Morrissey is even more of a brazen optimist than I am. Having this President openly acknowledge that Gitmo serves a useful purpose and should be retained would be like having the Pope come out and declare ex cathedra that Hell was actually a pretty cool vacation spot, down to the likely reaction of certain members of the base.
Which is not to say that Gitmo is going to close. People just need to… forget that Gitmo was supposed to close, that’s all.
Moe Lane
PS: I get the impression that the Uighurs are turning into one of those convenient complications for this administration.
Crossposted to RedState.
The problem that “the left” had with the particulars was the targets.
Post-Tiller’s death, we’ll see renewed calls for increased law enforcement powers to protect us from terrorists.
PATRIOT III (or whatever it will be called) will compare to PATRIOT as the 2009 budget compared to the 2002 budget.