Is Obama Appalled by His Own Anti-Terrorism Policies?

“I continue to believe that we’ve got to close Guantanamo,” said President Barack Obama at yesterday’s news conference. “The idea that we would still maintain forever a group of individuals who have not been tried, that is contrary to who we are.”

Those sound like the words of a man appalled by the very idea of keeping enemy combatants behind bars without charges -- which is hard to reconcile with the actions of the president, who has made indefinite detention a cornerstone of his anti-terrorism policy.