More live-blogging: Obama argues that Gitmo serves as a rallying point for jihadists and al-Qaeda terrorists and that this makes the United States less safe.
Question: How does the president address the fact that al-Qaeda struck and struck persistently before Gitmo?
This suggests that the problem, again, is ideology — and specifically al-Qaeda’s ideology — rather than Gitmo. We will be less secure unless we focus on the ideological problem rather than blaming ourselves.