If true (all I noticed were "Don't move them into my district!", a legit issue), what does that say about Obama's foresight?
Such objections were predictable when he made that pledge, nothing's changed in your claimed reasons of "ignorance and overall un-literacy" and high turnout elderly. It says nothing good if all this was enough to stop him once he became President, whatever the exact reason(s), and it's remains another broken promise.
Going to disagree with you that it's a "legit issue". The people in guantanamo are not comic book supervillians. They do not have special powers. The whole NIMBY thing surrounding them is just as silly as saying that maximum security prisons shouldn't exist.
The normal occupants of maximum security prisons don't have world-wide networks of people with a demonstrated willingness and ability to kidnap or mass murder to apply pressure for their release. Guantanamo is wonderfully isolated, Cuban mine field on the land side (Clinton removed ours, replacing it with sensors), otherwise a Navy base only accessible only by air and sea, which we control.
There was also the wrinkle of trying them in normal civilian courts, which would have been a logistical nightmare.
Ah, yeah, don't forget the usual suspects would be out there protesting 24x7. Not saying that's not their right, but what Congresscritter wants that?
(And all rather silly, at least for the unlawful combatants, which per international war conventions can be killed out of hand.)
I'm not sure what the first thing has to do with anything. If a terrorist organization is going to kill or kidnap in order to play for someone's release, it doesn't particularly matter where they're located.
Logistical nightmare? We try more dangerous people than this every single year. It's hardly insurmountable.
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If true (all I noticed were "Don't move them into my district!", a legit issue), what does that say about Obama's foresight?
Such objections were predictable when he made that pledge, nothing's changed in your claimed reasons of "ignorance and overall un-literacy" and high turnout elderly. It says nothing good if all this was enough to stop him once he became President, whatever the exact reason(s), and it's remains another broken promise.
Going to disagree with you that it's a "legit issue". The people in guantanamo are not comic book supervillians. They do not have special powers. The whole NIMBY thing surrounding them is just as silly as saying that maximum security prisons shouldn't exist.
The normal occupants of maximum security prisons don't have world-wide networks of people with a demonstrated willingness and ability to kidnap or mass murder to apply pressure for their release. Guantanamo is wonderfully isolated, Cuban mine field on the land side (Clinton removed ours, replacing it with sensors), otherwise a Navy base only accessible only by air and sea, which we control.
There was also the wrinkle of trying them in normal civilian courts, which would have been a logistical nightmare.
Ah, yeah, don't forget the usual suspects would be out there protesting 24x7. Not saying that's not their right, but what Congresscritter wants that?
(And all rather silly, at least for the unlawful combatants, which per international war conventions can be killed out of hand.)
I'm not sure what the first thing has to do with anything. If a terrorist organization is going to kill or kidnap in order to play for someone's release, it doesn't particularly matter where they're located.
Logistical nightmare? We try more dangerous people than this every single year. It's hardly insurmountable.