I'd like to think you are right. But I don't, though. I think he decided that the people who are locked up there are not worth the political fallout. But we all lose when people are locked up due to ignorance and can't be released lest the ignorance be exposed. I think the US military has gotten much better at understanding Afghanistan, but most of the people who are in Guantanamo never needed to be there and definitely aren't in any position to be planning harm to the United States now, if they ever were.
On a side note, I am pretty sure this is not the first time I've expressed profound disappointment on this issue, nor is it the first time you've said something of this kind. But I notice that the lists' right-wing apologists are still claiming that anyone who criticizes a Reoublican is seeing things in black and white. Sigh. On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 1:00 PM, GMoney <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I have to agree with you there. It was one of the reasons I was tempted > to > > make the comparison in the last administration. I realize that there was > > significant (stupid) opposition to closing it but if Obama can institute > > martial law by decree, I'm not quite sure why he can't just say you know > > what this is the right thing to do and we're doing it. > > > he easily could, and I think he would LOVE to do just that...since, you > know, he promised to do it. > > So why didn't he? I can think of only one logical reason that makes sense: > President Obama became privy to information that Candidate Obama was not > privy too, that convinced him, same as Bush before him, that simply closing > Gitmo would present a clear and present danger to the country. > > Now we can scream that this is wrong and not the American way....and > well....we'd be right. But if my assumption is right, then we've had two > completely different presidents from two different parties come to the same > conclusion re: Gitmo. Which is compelling. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:348902 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
