Obama May Close Guantanamo Bay As Early As Inauguration Day
Except that even an issued order doesn’t exactly end the matter, as the next step is figuring out what to do with all the dangerous terrorists detained there:
It’s unlikely the detention facility at the Navy base in Cuba will be closed anytime soon. In an interview last weekend, Obama said it would be “a challenge” to close it even within the first 100 days of his administration.
But the order, which one adviser said could be issued as early as Jan. 20, would start the process of deciding what to do with the estimated 250 al-Qaida and Taliban suspects and potential witnesses who are being held there. Most have not been charged with a crime.
So what happens to the terrorists? There isn’t a country on the face of the earth that will take them. So do we just release them back into the wild? That’s a debacle waiting to happen for Obama, because if one of those detainees gets caught involved in another attack that blood directly on The One’s hands.
There are rumors circulating that the detainees might simply be transferred to a place like the Charleston naval base, and that they might be handled through military tribunal systems anyway, in which case what is the point in going through all the pain and expense of closing down Guantanamo Bay?
Outside of it being a symbolic gesture made by Obama to placate his left-wing base.
