“John Brennan, the President’s counterterrorism adviser, thinks that closing Guantanamo prison is necessary to avoid giving al-Qaeda “a propaganda victory”, when from al-Qaeda’s point of view the closure itself is probably regarded as the victory.”

Our fathers and grandfathers weren’t so stupid as to think closing military prisons was necessary to avoid giving Nazi Germany a “propaganda victory” during World War II; they knew from basic common sense and a sense of self-defense that such an action would be regarded as an actual victory by the Nazis. Evil people and evil governments will always employ lying propaganda when they meet effective opposition, i.e.: when evil men are defeated they are forced to seek “propaganda victory.”

So, this is the maxim to remember:

A defeated enemy is forced into displays of victorious propaganda. The enemy’s “propaganda victory” is a measure of our actual victory. Three cheers for our enemy’s “propaganda victory.”