WSJ’s Strassel: There Will Be a Big Blowback from Obama Closing Gitmo

‘This is very personal to a lot of Americans out there too, who don’t necessarily want terrorists next door to them’

STRASSEL:  "Huge. I’m kind of amazed you think the president cares about the law. He will just do — look at his record so far on all of these. Look at what he just did with Keystone. The company went through the process. And that didn’t help them at all in the end. These are political decisions. And he will probably now make a faint toward asking Congress for permission, and when they say no, he’ll go ahead and pull the pin anyway. There will be a big blowback from this, because this may be personal to the president, but this is very personal to a lot of Americans out there too, who don’t necessarily want terrorists next door to them."

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