I've come to believe that Bush's policy of Democratization in the Middle East is a farce and a lost cause. It began to unravel when I saw the Iraqis time and time again standing on the smoldering ruins of American machinery and lives screaming allah akbar and it came to a grand finale, in a political sense, when Hamas. a terrorist organization, was democratically elected in the Gaza strip. Add to that woeful outcome the election in Lebanon of Hezbollah, a terrorist organization responsible for t...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration stopped calling Guantanamo inmates "enemy combatants" on Friday and incorporated international law as its basis for holding the prisoners while it works to close the facility. Well, if we're not going to call them enemy combatants anymore then what shall we call them? People for whom we seldom disagree? Ridiculous.

Obama moved very quickly to placate his kook base by shutting down Gitmo within a year. So let it be written, so let it be done! What I'd like to know is this, if we're shutting down Gitmo, then where on earth will we put the mastermind of 911, the Waldorf Astoria? Why on earth is our Government in such a rush to change just about the only thing that Bush/Cheney got right? The results cannot be disputed. There has not been one single attack on American soil since 911.