Some folks were giddy at Timesman Thomas Friedman's call for the U.S. to shut down the terrorist jail at Guantanamo Bay.

David B. Rivkin Jr. & Lee A. Casey, at The Corner, were not:

If we have evidence against any of the detainees, (Friedman) suggests, we should "put them on trial, convict as many [as] possible (which will not be easy because of bungled interrogations) and then simply let the rest go home or to a third country. Sure, a few may come back to haunt us." What a charming way to describe it--a few may come back to haunt us. For al Qaeda, of course, haunting does not involve shouting boo in the night. It involves arranging matters so that scores of our fellow citizens must choose between burning to death and jumping 100 stories to the pavement.

Some people do remember Sept. 11.