President Obama, just now: We will close Guantanamo prison, which has damaged our national security interests and has become a tremendous recruiting tool for
“„We will close Guantanamo prison, which has damaged our national security interests and has become a tremendous recruiting tool for al-Qaeda. In fact, that was an explicit rationale for the formation of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
“„sigh. Not that complicated. Gitmo doesn’t cause terror. It does increase Muslim populations’ sympathy for AQ… Propaganda against US. So closing it deprives AQ of a propaganda cudgel against us.