President Obama's final letter of appeal to the senate for the closure of Guantanomo Bay
buzzz worthy. . . For 15 years, the United States has detained hundreds of people at the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, a facility that never should have been opened in the first place. Rather than keeping us safer, the detention facility at Guantanamo undermines American national security. Terrorists use it for propaganda, its operations drain our military resources during a time of budget cuts, and it harms our partnerships with allies and countries whose cooperation we need against today ' s evolving terrorist threat. By any measure, the costs of keeping it open far exceed the complications involved in closing it. As President, I have tried to close Guantanamo. When I inherited this challenge, it was widely recognized that the facility -- which many around the world continue to condemn -- needed to close. Unfortunately, what had previously been bipartisan support for closure suddenly became a partisan issue. Des...