Looks like it’s going to have to wait:
Rebuffed this month by skeptical lawmakers when it sought finances to buy a prison in rural Illinois, the Obama administration is struggling to come up with the money to replace the Guantánamo Bay prison.
As a result, officials now believe that they are unlikely to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and transfer its population of terrorism suspects until 2011 at the earliest — a far slower timeline for achieving one of President Obama’s signature national security policies than they had previously hinted.
How many more young Islamic men will leave off hurling their dishonorable sisters off the balcony and become radicalized by this continuing outrage? And how much longer will America’s image suffer in the salons of Paris and Frankfurt?
And is anybody even keeping score on this anymore? Because I for one have lost the plot.
But wait, there’s more than one way to skin a cat, according to the NRO’s Andrew McCarthy:
(The) administration announced on the Sunday before Christmas that it had transferred a dozen detainees out of Gitmo. On its face, this is alarming enough. The Bush administration, it is freely conceded, released many enemy combatants, including many who obviously should have been continued in detention and who have gone on to rejoin the jihad and commit horrific acts of terrorism. That’s how we got from about 800 detainees down to about 200. But there’s a big difference.
The original 800 included some marginal figures (to hear the Left tell it, all the detainees were shepherds indiscriminately swept up by the Northern Alliance to win bribe money from the CIA). But now we are down to a much smaller core group — detainees whose cases we’ve had years to study and whom we’ve held despite enormous pressure to release them. These are the worst of the worst. We have an absolute right under the laws of war to hold them, and when one of them gets sprung it’s cause for grave concern.
Andy doesn’t get it – faced with a lack of supply (CONUS-based prison cots) the administration is merely bending the demand curve.
It makes perfectly good mathematical sense.
I say this in jest of course…
We didn’t get the Olympics in IL either.
There should be lots of room for them. I’m sure the Kennedy Klan Kompound kould (I kouldn’t resist that) should be able to take a few hundred. Pelosi can turn over some of her rental property (spreading the wealth, don’t you know) to house a few dozen more – and maybe pick up some cheap labor to work her vineyards too.
I think both Babs “Don’t call me Ma’am I’m more important than that” Boxer and The Divine Ms. Di can house a dozen in their mansions.
And the former junior senator from IL can find a few empty rooms in the White House, I’m sure. See how easy it is to solve these things?
An aside.
I was browsing around and found this:
THE OBAMA PC CLOWN CORPS HYMN
(sung to the tune of the “Marine Corps Hymn”)
From the Halls of Academia
To the Shores of Hope and Change;
We wont’t fight our country’s battles
Cause war is so deranged;
But we’ll fight for social justice
And to spread the wealth around;
We are proud to claim the title of
An Obama PC Clown.
Our progressive cause is all the rage
From dawn to setting sun;
And the dilly-dally dithering
Hides the barrel of our gun;
In the snow of far-off northern states
And in sunny southern towns;
You will find us always on the job–
Obama’s PC Clowns.
Here’s a toast to our great CIC
Who we are proud to serve!
And we’d stand up for our way of life
If we only had the nerve;
If Pelosi and the Democrats
Ever doffed their little crowns;
They would find their back are covered by
Obama’s PC Clowns.
A clever… but ultimately mal use of the Marine Corps Hymn. Best
The thought occurred to me when Obama announced his intention to close Gitmo, that the property, with harbor, buildings and airfield, would make a wonderful gift to Fidel, just to “extend a hand of friendship instead of a closed fist.” Lokks like that will take a little longer than planned.
Andrew McCarthy is not entirely correct. Yes, the pool is smaller but not all remaining are the “hardest cases”. In some of the cases release poses no problems for us at all, and never has…they’ve been trying to find out what to do with those inmates because their release would cause problems FOR THEM. And since we can’t return, for instance, the Uighurs to China where they would be killed for certain, or the Uzbeks to Uzbekistan where they would be boiled to death, the process of finding a place takes time. Two Uzbeks recently went to Ireland, and some of the Uighurs went to a remote Island I’ve never heard of and the name escapes me…
So, per the topic, there’s no reason to conclude that Obama is releasing the “worst of the worst” back out to reek havoc. There has been an annual review process at Gitmo in place for years. The purpose of the review process is to evaluate whether or not the suspects pose a threat. If there were no absolutely question, there would be no need for annual review boards.
Joe, I was bit concerned that the your K key was stuck.
Having said that, I would certainly agree with the appellation of the Kennedy Klan. I say would they are THE Klan.