Guantanamo

If he hasn’t done so already today, Obama will soon sign an executive order closing the terrorist detainment center at Guantanamo. The order will either specify no target date for the closure or the target date will be at least four years out. His supporters will be placated and the mainstream media will laud this action as an example of the great changes to be expected from the new regime.

But nothing will be different and there will be no substantive changes in US policy in this regard. Barack and his aides have been officially informed about what he and they should have known and, perhaps, did know. The inmates at Guantanamo are not innocent bystanders caught up in an illegal military sweep. They are severely dangerous threats to the United States and must be handled as they are now being handled.

The Obama administration will not admit that the Bush Administration had it right all along. But its reluctance to close the detainment operation immediately, or within a short period of time, will serve to prove that the Bush Administration did, indeed, have it right.

Deference to the detainees.

Nice clean quarters.

The inmates are issued a copy of the Koran and a surgical mask to keep it off the floor.