Charles Krauthammer: Have we lost sight of 9-11 and the global war on terror?

Dallas Morning News ^ | 6-8-2005 | Charles Krauthammer

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Charles Krauthammer: Have we lost sight of 9-11 and the global war on terror? 12:06 AM CDT on Wednesday, June 8, 2005 The self-flagellation over abuse reports at Guantánamo has turned into a full-scale panic. There are calls for the United States, with all this worldwide publicity, to simply shut the place down. A terrible idea. Shutting down Guantánamo will solve nothing. We will capture more terrorists and we will have to interrogate them – if not at Guantánamo, then somewhere else. Then reports from that somewhere else will mirror the charges coming out of Guantánamo. The self-flagellation has gone far enough. We know that al-Qaeda operatives are trained to charge torture when they are in detention and, specifically, to charge abuse of the Quran to inflame fellow prisoners . . .

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The lefties desperately want a symbol of the war. A symbol to rally around. Something they can put in history books and schoolrooms. Something the un can use to make the case against "unilatteralism". Something they can all use for generations to hammer this "evil" country with and take us down.

They will continue harboring the hope they can make abu garab or guantannamo that symbol.