Camp Delta, the fenced-in core of the Guantánamo prison.Angel Franco/The New York Times
The Guantanamo Obsession And The Prisoners Who Will Neither Be Tried Nor Released -- The New Republic
Barack Obama is stuck with another of his campaign pledges. There are still nearly 200 prisoners in Guantanamo. I, for one, do not care if they are moved to a jailhouse in Illinois. But I still wonder what is wrong with that tip of Cuba (which happens to be U.S. territory) functioning as a penitentiary.
In any case, the deadline that candidate Obama set for President Obama to meet--the end of last year--has now passed. And, given the administration’s dire electoral and legislative troubles, I doubt that the president and his attorney general are about to engage the Congress and the people about shutting down Guantanamo, however late or early they can engineer a move--if they can ever.
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My Comment: I was surprised to read this commentary in the New Republic .... I thought that they would be more harsher in their criticism of President Obama's failure to close Guantanamo .... but there is no such thing.
This is a good summary on why President Obama is having trouble closing Guantanamo, and what are the consequences if he does.
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