In his May speech, President Barack Obama declared, “The record is clear: Rather than keep us safer, the prison at Guantanamo has weakened American national security.” President Barack Obama’s deadline has come and gone, and Guantanamo is still open. In part this is the result of political opposition from Americans—including many Congressional Democrats—who understandably do not want terrorists in their backyards.

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“Obama may have rather smugly given himself a “B+” for his 2009 performance but he gets an F for the events that led to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab boarding a Detroit-bound plane in Amsterdam with a PETN bomb sewn into his underpants. He said today that a “systemic failure has occurred”. Well, he’s in charge of that system.”

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