Post by jgaffney on Mar 8, 2011 11:35:30 GMT -5
Our President is showing us that his on-the-job training is not going so well. This is from Pejman Yousefzadeh:
Barack Obama campaigned, and came to office on the promise that he would close Guantanamo Bay. But the third year of his Presidency has commenced, and we are no closer to closing the detention facility there. Quite the contrary; the Obama Administration has actually reaffirmed, and increased its reliance on Guantanamo Bay as a detention locale:
President Obama signed an executive order Monday that will create a formal system of indefinite detention for those held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who continue to pose a significant threat to national security. The administration also said it will start new military commission trials for detainees there.
The announcements, coming more than two years after Obama vowed in another executive order to close the detention center, all but cements Guantanamo Bay’s continuing role in U.S. counterterrorism policy.
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Me thinks that Mr. Obama is learning that it's a lot easier to throw hand grenades than it is to catch them. Overall, the Dems are showing us that they do much better as the minority party, since they have made a total mess of things durning the four years they were in power.
Barack Obama campaigned, and came to office on the promise that he would close Guantanamo Bay. But the third year of his Presidency has commenced, and we are no closer to closing the detention facility there. Quite the contrary; the Obama Administration has actually reaffirmed, and increased its reliance on Guantanamo Bay as a detention locale:
President Obama signed an executive order Monday that will create a formal system of indefinite detention for those held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who continue to pose a significant threat to national security. The administration also said it will start new military commission trials for detainees there.
The announcements, coming more than two years after Obama vowed in another executive order to close the detention center, all but cements Guantanamo Bay’s continuing role in U.S. counterterrorism policy.
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Me thinks that Mr. Obama is learning that it's a lot easier to throw hand grenades than it is to catch them. Overall, the Dems are showing us that they do much better as the minority party, since they have made a total mess of things durning the four years they were in power.