Obama orders resumption of military tribunals at Guantanamo - CNN.com
Is there ANY campaign promise that he is going to keep? (although, I admit, it was a stupid idea to pretend to close it in the first place).
As naive and inexperiened as he was when he took office, he has been doing a lot of learning while on the job, and has accepted that what seemed so simple in campaign rhetoric was not so simple in reality.
GITMO is a one-of-a-kind, state of the art facility for a special kind of prisoner and it simply cannot be duplicated anywhere else without incurring all sorts of unintended negative consequences. Prisoners at GITMO are receiving the best food, health care, and humane treatment that most have ever experienced in their lives.
Those demanding that GITMO be closed I think are short sighted and/or tunnel visioned.
Endorsed!
As "inhumane" as the liberal/popular press make it out to be, I've always regarded it as an entirely legitimate reactionary measure. If Islamic terrorists want to move the goal posts and fly planes into the World Trade Centre; then they should expect a harsh reception once they're caught.
Honestly, these jihadists should think themselves lucky that they aren't locked-up in our high security (A-Cat) prison, Belmarsh 'aka' Hellmarsh, where they're placed among the general population, and have to shit in a bucket. They should also be denied the right to prayer, in my opinion.
