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When Obama visited Sweden last time I wrote a tongue-in-cheek piece in my local newspaper to put him to trial in the Hague for crimes against humanity. I think
by Johnny_Brahms 10y ago
When Obama visited Sweden last time I wrote a tongue-in-cheek piece in my local newspaper to put him to trial in the Hague for crimes against humanity. I think most of his tries to close gitmo has been half-assed at most. Just moving gitmo to the US mainland without changing any policies around how to treat detainees is not good enough, and it definitely is not the same as closing it.
- Semiapies 10y agoIt's just how political polarization works in the US. Nothing changed in Iraq until the actual pullout a free years after he took office, and Obama ramped up the war in Afghanistan and over Pakistan, but the anti-war movement here shut down the moment he took office. The "they won't let him shut down Gitmo" business is exactly the same thing. It's just a rallying cry, and strictly one to rally around the president with, not to try to accomplish change with. Hence the literalism - it's not about humane treatment of prisoners, human rights, or anything like that. It's about that one base in Cuba. It's just excusing a failed campaign promise.