Daniel Pipes now wants most American troops out of Iraq. What?! Did he hit his head and become sane? Hardly. The neocons have a problem. They want another war, any war, before the next election. Preferably Iran, but they'll take Syria

No one visiting those grim, now-empty cells before Sept. 11 would have believed that the United States of America would one day found its own Devil's Island, Guantánamo, in which prisoners would languish without trial for nobody knows how long. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has said that they might stay there for the duration of the war on terrorism, which will probably last a couple of generations at the least.