some extent, Mr. Obama is a prisoner of facts on the ground when it comes to Guantanamo. Nonetheless, I fault him and his administration for failing to process and repatriate more prisoners to their home nations and to either provide evidence for their continued detention or to allow paroles. I credit Mr. Obama with killing Osama bin Ladin and other ranking leaders of Al Qaeda and using targeted assassination to do so. Again, this is a dirty war. And it comes to us as a fact on the ground. And I credit Mr. Obama with using targeted assassination and intelligence gathering to thwart additional attacks on American soil. If you want to believe the world a less malevolent place than it actually is, then all of this must sound horrifying and unnecessary. It is horrifying. But it is scarcely unnecessary. Those planes really did fly into those buildings. Those American civilians really did die. We are really engaged with a certain extra-legal enemy in a long-term, low-grade conflict that is entirely lethal. If I voted for Romney, do I think I would have closed Guantanamo faster? Or made the targeted assassinations more precise, or restricted their use against fellow citizens suspected of operating with Al Qaeda? Do I think the dirty war is not going to be required under Romney? No. Of course not. I will say that I was in absolute agreement with Ron Paul when he took issue with the targeting of an American citizen during the campaign.