As the souring economy continues to strap us, and as calls for belt-tightening step up from rhetoric to mandates, we are able to see much more clearly where our leaders’ priorities lie.

‘I have said repeatedly that I intend to close Guantanamo, and I will follow through on that. I have said repeatedly that America does not torture, and I’m going to make sure that we don’t torture.

In 1983, Beirut Lebanon was a city controlled by militant terrorists. It was a bombed out of shell city.