Obama ‘Determined’ to Close Gitmo
Despite Making No Efforts to Close Facility in 2010, White House Still Claims Goal
President Obama is officially “determined” to see the detention center at Guantanamo Bay closed, according to a news briefing today by spokesman Robert Gibbs. The comment comes fully 11 months after the deadline at which the president initially pledged to close the facility.
You’d figure having missed the deadline so badly the president would be working feverishly to get it done, but this is not the case, and for all his talk of using the lame duck Congress to get his way, there seems to be no indication Gitmo will even be discussed again this year.
Instead, the president has cheerfully restarted military tribunals and everything seems business as usual at America’s most notorious extra-legal detention center. That the administration is still claiming to be trying to close it, let alone “determined” to close it, is nothing short of astonishing.
And following the mid-term elections there is almost zero chance the president would be able to get the facility closed, if he were even trying in earnest. The president not only failed to push such a resolution through a Democrat-dominated Congress, he even cheered them publicly when they rejected his call to close it. Now, with a number of Gitmo-enthusiasts in key Congressional positions, such a measure would require far more effort from the president, and it is an effort he clearly has no intention of making.
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Montaigne
November 18th, 2010 at 11:50 pm
Perhaps this is a very fitting stand from the president of the USA. Being "determined! means only seeking to APPEAR being determined, just like any war is determined with peaceful and noble intentions, and in fact any promise is being determined to be faked into public media existence as virtually, if not fulfilled, then virtually pursued.
Hopefully, for the rest of the world, the entire econmy will come tumbling down, as creditors subscribes to VIRTUALLLY honouring their obligations, workers virtually do their jobs, and corporations virtually deliver on promises.
The only personal and private reality will be secret negotiations behind closed doors behind the presidents militarily secured doors, emanating faked paroles to the public. And when those orders and manipulations are also being infested with dishonesty and deception – which probably is well on its way – then at last the faked non-existence of the empire will wither away
It is like a mysterious, evil spell is hanging over the American mind!
andy
November 19th, 2010 at 11:43 am
Why not give the place back to Cuba? We have no right to it.