Closing Guantánamo Is Not Going To Happen

A US military guard walks within the grounds of the maximum security prison of Camp 5 at the Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base in Cuba (Getty Images)

Closing Guantánamo Fades As A Priority -- New York Times

WASHINGTON — Stymied by political opposition and focused on competing priorities, the Obama administration has sidelined efforts to close the Guantánamo prison, making it unlikely that President Obama will fulfill his promise to close it before his term ends in 2013.

When the White House acknowledged last year that it would miss Mr. Obama’s initial January 2010 deadline for shutting the prison, it also declared that the detainees would eventually be moved to one in Illinois. But impediments to that plan have mounted in Congress, and the administration is doing little to overcome them.

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My Commentary: Upon assuming the Presidency in 2009, President Obama's first order was to announce his intent to close Guantanamo. I remarked in this blog that such an objective was not only unrealistic, but potentially very dangerous since many of these terrorists can never be convicted in a U.S. court room .... and if so must then be released (unless the law is changed).

18 months later, Guantanamo is still open for business .... and it will stay open for the foreseeable future. As for the Obama administration and the Democrat super majorities in Congress and Senate .... this is a case that they now desperately want to be put out of place, and out of mind.

And for those who supported President Obama and his election commitment to close Guantanamo .... don't you feel betrayed yet?