Other view: End-game nears for Guantanamo

Clearly, the Bush administration hoped it would never come to this, but a day of reckoning over detainees in Guantanamo is approaching quickly. Lawyers for the Justice Department appeared in a Washington federal courtroom Tuesday to argue for yet another delay in deciding how to deal with most of the 270 individuals who remain confined at the island prison, only to be rebuffed by a stern judge. “The time has come to move these forward,” Judge Thomas F. Hogan told the lawyers. “Set aside every other case.”