$200 Million for Palau

Barack Obama finally figured out how to get rid of the 17 Uighur detainees held at Guantanamo.

He is paying the island nation of Palau $200 million to take them.

The administration and Palau call it economic aid, but for a nation of 20,000 that isn't exactly a strategic priority for the United States, the payoff is obvious.

These Uigher detainees were captured in Afghanistan, and they received training from Al-Quaeda. We worry that we can't release them into America, since in fact they have received terrorist training and while their cause is independence for their region from China, they could decide to attack America. And we worry that we can't return them to China, since China sees them as terrorists and that country could kill or torture them.

So we are left with this payoff.