Gitmo Won't Be Closed by January as Promised by Obama.
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Stumble This"The White House is acknowledging for the first time that it might not be able to meet President Barack Obama's January deadline for closing the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay. (Sept. 26)" [/yt]
Where's the change? I knew they'd never shut Gitmo. And if they did, it would be moved or renamed or reassigned.
Where's the change? I knew they'd never shut Gitmo. And if they did, it would be moved or renamed or reassigned.
Bush thought Gitmo was necessary; this president is working to close it. There is no similarity.
There is an old story about a man taking office. He leaves two notes for the next man in line. He said to open the first one when he gets in a bind, and the second if he gets in another.
Time passes and he has the unfortunate occasion to open the first letter. It reads "Blame it all on me". He does, and things move along quite well. But, time moves on and he finds himself in a new bind. So, he is forced to open the second letter to get a glimpse of the pearls of wisdom to be had. It reads "Write two letters...."
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
"Democracy...is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike." - Plato
This is why we don't live in a democracy, or at least initially. We lived in a constitutional republic with very strict guidelines and rule-sets allocated to the government. "Greater good", unabridged general welfare thinking got us to where we are today. Pass one law to weed out one evil, create 3 more.