WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama laid out new guidelines for drone strikes on Thursday and launched a fresh bid to close Guantanamo, warning that a “perpetual” US war on terror would be self-defeating.

Obama told Americans their country was at a crossroads, and must move on from the counterterrorism policies deployed after the September 11 attacks to confront a new era of diverse global threats and homegrown radicals.

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