In one of his first acts as president, Barack Obama fulfilled his campaign promise to close down Gitmo—the prison for the war-on-terror’s illegal enemy combatants at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. In his executive order, President Obama declared that “these victims of the Bush Administration have suffered enough. We’ve got to bring an end to the cycle of hostility and reprisals. These men were enemies to a regime that no longer exists. I am offering an olive branch of peace in the hope that it will bring about a change in feelings and attitudes between our country and...