Obama "promised" to close Gitmo within a year, that was a stupid promise and in the end reality slapped upside his head.
Well, not really....Obama's efforts to close Gitmo have been hindered by both the Pentagon and the SCOTUS.......Know this: Guantánamo, which has held as many as seven hundred and seventy-nine prisoners, now houses just seventy-six. But it remains open, at a cost of $445 million last year.
Obama was slapped by the reality he faced about WHO was bein detained there. The opposition to closing was based on those being held , and how dangerous they were. Trump is being slapped in the face by the reality of the coverage issues and the fact that (as he has now discovered) politically it is a loser , and personally it would be a disaster for those whom need it most.
You see? It's really not hard to actually be reasonable when one sets side one's emotions and ego, you should try it.
I wanted for the thread to be about the repealing of the ACA and the serious dilemma that Trump has placed his minions in congress in coming up with an alternative....
YOU, however, are trying to derail the thread to debating GITMO.....so be it...
GITMO SHOULD be closed down, it serves NO purpose but to give ISIS and Al-Qaeda yet another mantra to call the west evil..........Those few remaining detainees should be placed in a federal maximum security prison for the rest of their miserable lives...that is, after a civil trial that would surely find them guilty......Some how, right wingers have convinced themselves that a maximum security prison would be too "luxurious" for these evil bastards.....it is not, and we already have other terrorists languishing in such prisons.