A Conservative Case Against Gitmo

It’s been fun these past few weeks to watch President Obama and the Democrats twist and squirm over the issue of Guantanamo. After spending years scoring cheap political points at the Bush administration’s expense, they are now finding that it’s not so easy to close the detention facility after all. But in spite of all his loose campaign talk, President Obama is coming out in a pretty sensible place on the issue of terrorist detentions, and Republicans would be well-advised to support him instead of continuing their sniping.

In his speech at the National Archives, he said: “Rather than keep us safer, the prison at Guantanamo has weakened American national security.  It is a rallying cry for our enemies. It sets back the willingness of our allies to work with us in fighting an enemy that operates in scores of countries. By any measure, the costs of keeping it open far exceed the complications involved in closing it.”