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> Neither tried very hard. The article I posted earlier shows some of the effort that went into the attempt to close Guantanamo Bay. Your definition of what co
by lern_too_spel 4y ago
> Neither tried very hard.
The article I posted earlier shows some of the effort that went into the attempt to close Guantanamo Bay. Your definition of what constitutes trying hard sets an unreasonably high bar.
> Naively one might think the former would be politically difficult, and the latter easy.
The latter is much more difficult because it involves securing funding and purchasing land and then getting building permits that require impact reports and obtaining the services of a contractor. The US had already completed all the prerequisites to execute an airstrike in Iraq.
- nhchris 4y ago> The latter is much more difficult because [..] All the reasons you give can be circumvented by simply breaking the law. Which is exactly what Soleimani's assassination involved. It was easy to break the law to assassinate a foreign high-ranking government official (and the press barely complained!), but hard to enforce standing immigration law (yet the press howled anyway).
- lern_too_spel 4y agoBreaking the law does not solve all the issues I listed so easily. It does easily solve the issue of killing somebody who had taken military action in a country that the US military is already in.