President: 'Guantanamo likely created more terrorists than it ever detained'

"Instead of serving as a tool to counter terrorism, Guantanamo became a symbol that helped al-Qaeda recruit terrorists to its cause," Mr. Obama said. "Indeed the existence of Guantanamo likely created more terrorists than it ever detained."

Undoubtedly, our great symbolic crime, which our President somehow forgot to mention, but which hit the always seething Muslim street like a punch in the gut, was the story of American soldiers at Gitmo flushing a copy of the Holy Koran down the toilet.