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Will Obama Miss His Own Guantanamo Deadline?

In the heady afterglow of Obama's inauguration, I accepted a bet from Ann Althouse. She bet that the president, in the end, would not fulfill his promise to close Guantanamo within a year, by next January. Testing my hope that Obama could be counted on, I bet that he'd come through. Now I'd say Ann is looking more prescient than I am.