The agreements make no mention of use as a prison camp, for housing unlawful combatants.

I wonder where the documentation exists confirming that Castro has permission from the Almighty to use the rest of Cuba as a prison camp for housing people unfortunate enough to have to live somewhere el barbudo can put his heel down.

You have to love the simplicity of the argument though.

The agreements make no mention of use as a prison camp, for housing unlawful combatants.

So the United States is not complying by the original agreement.

SO THERE! Nana nana booboo.

Sheesh. They give anyone that can spell their names a job a Knight-Ridder, dont they?

If the US presence/actions there are "unlawful," does it not make it more logical that we should house unlawful combatants there?

In any case, the fact Uncle is there and will continue there for the foreseeable future means...UNCLE DON'T GIVE A SHIT WHAT THE LEFT THINKS! And neither, apparently do the MAJORITY of our citizens.

"All it takes is one Elephant to stomp a bunch of ASSES."

Not that it makes any difference, but wouldn't the fact that the prison camp is run by the military be enough to fit it into the "naval base" option? I mean, I'm pretty sure a lot of stuff occurs at a modern naval base that doesn't have to do with the deployment of a fleet.

Besides let's be honest, Castro needs money from any source he can find. If he really wants Gitmo back let's see him try and take it.

Those clever liberals and their great legal minds; what would we do without them for a laugh?

As September 11 faded in our collective memory, Muslim extremists were systematically reinvented as near underprivileged victims, themselves adept critics of purported rapacious Western consumerism, oil profiteering, heavy-handed militarism, and spiritual desolation.

Extremists who would otherwise be properly seen in the fascistic mold were instead given a weird pass for their quite public and abhorrent hatred of non-believers, their Neanderthal views of women.

Beheadings, the murder of Christians, suicide bombings carried out by children, systematic torture — all this and more paled in comparison to hot and cold temperatures in American jails in Cuba.

Suddenly despite their long record of murder and carnage, we were in a war not with fascist fanatics of the old stamp, but with those who were historical victims of the United States.

This media formulated picture created problems for marshalling American public opinion against grievances against Western hegemons. It was no surprise that Sen. Durbin's infantile rantings would be showcased on al-Jazeera.

When Western liberals today talk of a mythical period in the days after 9/11 of "unity" and "European solidarity" what they really remember is a Golden Age of Victimhood, or about four weeks before the strikes against the Taliban commenced. Then for a precious moment at last the United States was a real victim, apparently weak and vulnerable, and suffering cosmic justice from a suddenly empowered other. Oh, to return to the days before Iraq and Afghanistan, when we were hurt, introspective, and pitied, and had not yet "lashed out."

If one examines the infomercials of a bin Laden or Zawahiri, or the terrorist communiqués sent to the Westernized media, they are almost all rehashes of the Michael Moore Left, from "Bush lied" to "Halliburton" to "genocide" and "Gulag."

This now famous "Unholy Alliance" of radical anti-American littany and reactionary jihadist lore is really a two-way street:
Islamists mimic the old leftist critique of the United States, and the Western Left hopes that they in turn can at least tone down their rhetoric about knocking walls over gays or sending all women into burka seclusion
— at least long enough to pose as something like disposed Palestinians minus the Hamas bombs laced with feces, rat poison, and nails.

There was never much room for error in this war. We are not talking in this postmodern era in terms of a past Democratic president invading Latin America, interring citizens in high-plains camps, hanging terrorist suspects, nuking cities, or bombing pharmaceutical factories in Africa.

But, at least from the weird present hysteria, something apparently far worse —

Like the supposedly flushing of a Koran at Guantanamo.

In a leisured and liberal society, it is very difficult in general for a conservative to wage war, as a result of the conservative's correct view of human nature and his belief in the occasional utility of force to deter aggresion.

In contrast, once the metamorphosis of the Islamists from fascists to victimized critics of the West was underway, and once a conservative like George Bush eschewed the old League of Nations utopianism, the fireside chat, and the "I feel your pain" persona of traditional Democratic war leaders, I fear we will have real trouble finishing this war.

Contrary to all recent popular wisdom, the war in Iraq is not a disaster, but nearing success. It has been costly and at times tragic, but a democracy is in place, and a democratic reformist mindset is pulsating into Lebanon, Egypt, and the Gulf. This has only been possible because of the courage and efficacy of a much maligned military that, for the lapses of a small minority at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib, has been compared to Stalin and Hitler.

If President Bush were a liberal Democrat; if he were bombing a white Christian, politically clumsy fascist in the heart of Europe; if al Qaeda and its Islamist adherents were properly seen as eighth-century tormenters of humanists, women, homosexuals, non-Arabs, and non-Wahhabi believers; and if Iraq had become completely somnolent with the toppling of Saddam's statue, then the American people would have remained behind the effort to dismantle Islamic fundamentalism and create the foundations to ensure its permanent demise.

But once the suicide murdering and bombing from Iraq began to dominate the news, then this administration, for historical reasons largely beyond its own control, had a very small reservoir of good will. The Islamists proved to be more adept in the public relations of winning liberal exemption from criticism than did the administration itself.

One nude Iraqi on film or a crumpled Koran was always deemed far worse than daily beheadings and executions. Indeed, the terrorists were able to morph into downtrodden victims of a bullying, imperialistic America faster than George W. Bush was able to appear a reluctant progressive at war with the Dark Age values of our enemies.

And once that transformation was established, we were into a dangerous cycle of a conservative, tough-talking president intervening abroad to thwart the third world — something that has never been an easy thing in recent American history, but now in our own age has become a propagandist's dream come true.

Castro has stolen American property in Cuba. This thug is the landlord from hell.

Try and evict the US military, Fidel.
Go on, I dare you.

Like it's never happened that there was a brig at a naval station? Okay, Guantanamo is maybe a very big brig, but it's still not unusual.

Man, excuse me for saying this... But I don't know how these columnists have the "BALLS" to write half the crap they do!
The Miami "mafia" should show this person who we really are... Down with the left!!!

The Miami Mafia is the nicest Mafia ever known in Mafiadom, don't you know that?
How else can you explain a Max Lesnick and a Luis Ortega having a McDonalds without someone spitting on their putrid faces. Although I MUST admit .. Ortega has pulled a 180 that must've given him whiplash. Not so communist when the checks stop showing up uh Ortega ?