Average temperature on the island nation of Palau: 82 degrees. If that's a little hot, residents and guests can cool off by swimming amidst the archipelago's famed coral reefs or wandering through endless acres of lush forests. The perfect place to send 17 bloodthirsty, radicalized jihadists:

The South Pacific island nation of Palau has agreed to "temporarily resettle" the 17 Uighurs, or Chinese Muslims, currently being held at Guantanamo Bay, an official with the Palau government told FOX News. "Palau's accommodation to accept the temporary resettlement of these detainees is a humanitarian gesture intended to held them be freed from any further unnecessary incarceration and to restart their lives anew in as normal a fashion as possible," according to a press release provided to FOX News by the official. Two U.S. officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to the Associated Press, said the U.S. was prepared to give Palau up to $200 million in development, budget support and other assistance in return for accepting the Uighurs and as part of a mutual defense and cooperation treaty that is due to be renegotiated this year.

At least we finally have a solution to Reid's mindbendingly idiotic suggestion that we close Gitmo but keep all the detainees out of US prisons: we can just pay for them to live in paradise. That'll show them!

No word on how long it'll take these 17 to join the long line of Gitmo recidivists. Though Palau is a long way from Yemen. Or Afghanistan. Or Saudi Arabia. Or Iraq. Or whereever the hell it is that Al Qaeda makes their videos. So I'm thinking at least a couple months.

Of course Gitmo is even farther from those places than Palau. But Obama was clear that freed Gitmo detainees might attack us again, so that's hardly a surprise. Plus it's a small price to pay for upholding our values. Even though our values don't seem to include "not being attacked by fanatics."

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