There has been a lot of talk lately about the future of Camp X-Ray down in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. For those of you who have been secluded in a Biosphere, Camp X-Ray is the detention center where the US military houses enemy combatants (read terrorists) caught on the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq. Most all of these detainees are either Taliban or al Qaeda. Coincidentally, we are actively engaged in a War on Terror. This includes as enemies the Taliban, al Qaeda and any other group of rag-tag Third World drop-outs who think strapping on an explosives belt to murder innocents is a good idea.

It seems the "lemming-to-the-sea,” liberal idea of the moment is to shut down Camp X-Ray. The liberals in Washington keep using the phrase "shut down Guantanamo Bay” but they’re really referring to the Camp X-Ray detention center. Of course, to be surprised that a liberal in Washington would speak inaccurately is to be surprised that Air America Radio is the media equivalent to the Hindenburg.

The reason given by people like Jimmy Carter, Joe Bidden and Teddy "we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it” Kennedy for the scuttling of Camp X-Ray is this: It tarnishes our image in the Arab world. They believe that the existence of a detention center for those caught shooting at our soldiers on the field of battle, where no incidents of torture, abuse or mistreatment of any kind have ever been recorded, incites those in the cool, calm and rational thinking Arab street  to embrace a dim view of America.

Well, pardon me for not being able to care less about how uninformed totalitarians wielding saifs and AK-47s view the United States. To fret over whether we are admired or not by those who live in a land where women are still stoned to death for venturing out of the house without a male family member is about as close to the absurd as I care to get.

This kind of thinking, in actuality, should be the last piece of evidence the world community – and especially the Arab street – needs to deem Americans completely void of any common sense what so ever. It illustrates beyond the shadow of a doubt that liberals in the United States suffer from the biggest case of "Oh, please love me!” low self-esteem mankind has ever witnessed.

The people being held at Camp X-Ray are very bad people. They were caught shooting at members of the most powerful and potent fighting force on the face of the planet, a fighting force that originates from the most generous and humanitarian nation in the history of said planet. It takes overwhelming conviction, one based in absolute stupidity, to oppose a military that consistently garners overwhelming odds of success. So, the idea that innocents were scooped up from the battlefields along with hardened terrorists and militants while on their way to the local 7-Eleven, just doesn’t hold water. These people – and I use the term only in its biological definition – deserve to be held in the most serious and God forsaken place that humanity can conceive. Judging from the reading material at Camp X-Ray – and I’m not talking about Newsweek magazine – I believe we have found just such a place.

So, it baffles the mind to hear the liberal-left shrieking for the closure of Camp X-Ray, a place so appropriate for those it accommodates. If anything we should be very happy that these murderous thugs – from whom we are still gleaning actionable intelligence – are secured in a place of excruciating solitude, far from the innocent laughter of our children.

Besides, if those calling for the demise of Camp X-Ray really want to improve the image of the United States overseas they should start by learning to tell the truth. Instead of twisting our best efforts at keeping our country safe into negatively charged political land mines while exploiting them to the benefit of their political ideology, perhaps the liberal left should be more inclined to incarcerate the human scum that is currently waging war against us. That would display an image of strength and the knowledge of right and wrong.