bill: back of the book segment tonight, watters world on labor day weekend, thousands of muslims gathered in washington for the islamic society of north america convention. today, of course, the 12th anniversary of 9/11 so this edition of watters world is especially appropriate. what is the muslim convention? i m here to gain more knowledge about my own religion. great to be with your fellow americans who happen to be also muslim. i m not muslim. but you are here at the muslim convention. yes. president obama still has gitmo open. yes, he does. does that bother you? it does. so, gitmo? that s terrible. and they are being tortured. the u.s. is torturing people. they are force feeding them which is one form of torture. what are we looking at here. burkini. this is a burkini i
bill: back of the book segment tonight, watters world on labor day weekend, thousands of muslims gathered in washington for the islamic society of north america convention. today, of course, the 12th anniversary of 9/11 so this edition of watters world is especially appropriate. what is the muslim convention? i m here to gain more knowledge about my own religion. great to be with your fellow americans who happen to be also muslim. i m not muslim. but you are here at the muslim convention. yes. president obama still has gitmo open. yes, he does. does that bother you? it does. so, gitmo? that s terrible. and they are being tortured. the u.s. is torturing people. they are force feeding them which is one form of torture. what are we looking at here. burkini. this is a burkini i
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realism part of the obama foreign policy and what he s announcing today on what he wants to nuclear weapons. it s not as ambitious as the prague speech, but guess what? the realistic nature of the senate, how it was to get new s.t.a.r.t. treaty through, so that s why this peach will not talk about a world without nuclear weapons. it will talk keeping a tactical advantage, which the president doesn t want to give up. now, as for that joint press conference, as for the news, it was probably as interesting some of the questions particularly from the german side and particularly from angela merkel on the nsa surveillance controversy here. the president was having to defend himself. he got a couple tough questions from the german press, one that reminded him of the nobel peace prize that he won and asked him why is gitmo open or why does he conduct a drone program? remember, they had to deal with surveillance in east germany,
from spying on the associated press, and i think, frankly, some of that portion of his speech was of a political response to the pressure that he s getting on other topics from progressives and liberals. but, sir, do you think it is america s policy to keep right now 32 people in detention that they have to force-feed, they have to tube-feed because of the hunger strikes they re on. when you look at the cost of keeping gitmo open, 160 detainees there now about $150 million a year. is this really a sustainable solution? well, i mean, listen. i think when you look at the cost of guantanamo the first thing to set it off against is how much are you willing to do to protect american soil and make sure we re safe from terrorists? so far guantanamo bay has worked. and i think we need to be careful before we change that policy. obviously, there are some things going on in guantanamo bay that none of us are proud of. and when it comes to the efforts