Wasting the honeymoon

So far Bush has a better record for closing Guantanamo | Mindy Belz

Guantanamo McDonald's/Photo by Thomas Van Houtryve

By the looks of things at Guantanamo no one is shutting the place down. McDonald's this month has advertised a job opening at Gitmo: an assistant manager willing to relocate to the fast-food chain's only outlet on the communist island of Cuba, and one within sight of the razor-ribbon guarding the terror detainees' camp on the 45-square-mile U.S. naval base.

In case you're wondering, McDonald's brings in frozen fries and burgers by barge from Jacksonville, Fla., in spite of the lingering U.S. trade embargo with Cuba, and feeds not only military and civilian government personnel stationed there but the 215 or so war-on-terror captives, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who hatched back in 1993 his "planes operation" we now refer to as 9/11.

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