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Conservative commentator and parodist Steven Crowder goes where no journalist has gone before, Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. The commentary starts out looking like a travel documentary, but after a few minutes he gets to the point. It has often been reported that Congressmen and Senators who were skeptical of the conditions and purpose of Guantanamo changed their positions after actually investigating the base. Not coincidentally, President Obama has never visited there, just as he was singularly incurious about Iraq during the campaign even while criticizing the Bush policy there, and just as he has been curiously detached from “his” war in Afghanistan.
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