Thomas Friedman: Free Al Q'aeda Terrorists; Empower Castro

Some days you just can't make this stuff up. Here's Tom Friedman waving his magic wand like Glinda the Good Witch of the North in the Sunday NYTimes, declaring with a dazed, hallucinogenic grin that "9-11 is Over". (That's the actual title of the editorial, reminding me, thematically at least, of this). You stupid little munchkins hiding in fear from the Wicked George Bush can all come out now:

You may think Guantánamo Bay is a prison camp in Cuba for Al Qaeda terrorists.

Last I checked, yes, it still is. And the reason it's a bad thing to keep them there is?...

A lot of the world thinks it’s a place we send visitors who don’t give the right answers at immigration.

Who would that be, exactly? Besides not being true (not that that ever stopped a New York Times columnist with a good head of steam), why do we care what lies the rest of the world chooses to believe after reading editorials like this one and listening to Al Jazeera and the BBC do Al Q'aeda's propaganda work for it? But Tom, we're dyin' here... tell us what you really think:

I will not vote for any candidate who is not committed to dismantling Guantánamo Bay and replacing it with a free field hospital for poor Cubans.

Hmm... interesting idea. I have a better one. How 'bout we free Cuba from the cult-of-personality Communist dictatorship that's created the poverty in the first place--aided and abetted by the leftist Western media?