President Obama says Gitmo is evil and bad for us but keeps it open

What gives Mr. President?  You campaigned on its closure and continue to describe just how bad for us it is.  Why not close it?  You trashed GWB for not closing it.  Come on, Mr. Big, you're the guy with all the power, why not keep a promise?

The Obama administration now acknowledges what the rest of us already knew. You can’t close a facility housing stateless unlawful enemy combatants with a presidential signature. “The White House admitted Sunday it would be unable to shut Guantanamo Bay in the near future, even as it acknowledged the U.S. naval prison camp is a rallying cry for Islamic extremists,” the AFP reports.

For a White House skilled in the art of dangerous mixed messages, this is a magnum opus. The damage is inflicted both at home and abroad. First, at home: the president has said he considers Gitmo a betrayal of American values, stating, “Rather than keeping us safer, the prison at Guantanamo has weakened American national security. It is a rallying cry for our enemies.” He once went so far as to claim that “the existence of Guantanamo likely created more terrorists around the world than it ever detained.” Now, with the admission that Gitmo must remain open, Americans are left to ponder the persistence of a self-described terrorist-creating policy. Is the machinery of our governance so decrepit that we have no choice but to move ahead with policies that are antithetical to American principles? Is there no way to fight a war on terrorism that is both honorable and effective?

There is something rather tawdry about a man who has the power to close something that he loudly denounces in the most extreme terms yet does not do it.  What ever happened to Obama's famed 'moral urgency of change'.

This guy is all hat and no cattle.  Moo.

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