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Great job, Obama! You've finally succeeded in getting somebody else
to take some of those Guantanamo detainees off your hands. Your
masterful diplomacy, although strangely ignored by more than 100 of our
petitioned allies, has swayed the tiny island country of Palau to
generously take a small group of the least dangerous detainees. Perhaps
also helpful was the mere fee of $200 million we're paying them,
which—as the Wall Street Journal points out—is
a practical $10,000 for every citizen of Palau. On the heels of that
good news comes yet more: Saudi Arabia is willing to take almost 100 of
the most dangerous detainees. Details of that negotiation still to come.
I can't help but wonder if the protesters who raged over
America's abuse of detainees in Guantanamo will express the same level
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