Department of Empty Rhetoric

glatt · 05-24-2013, 01:37 PM

Well, I didn't listen to the speech and don't have time to read it now, but based on news reports on it, if he wants to scale back the drone attacks and make them a little more transparent, that's at least a step in the right direction. And talking about closing Gitmo is better than doing nothing at all. It's not an inspirational speech, but I wouldn't go so far as to say it's terrible.

He says he wants to close Gitmo, but can't bring the prisoners here because of opposition. I'm not sure how that works. Seems to me he could just bring them to military prisons here. Commander in Chief and all that.

05-24-2013, 01:37 PM	#2
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Well, I didn't listen to the speech and don't have time to read it now, but based on news reports on it, if he wants to scale back the drone attacks and make them a little more transparent, that's at least a step in the right direction. And talking about closing Gitmo is better than doing nothing at all. It's not an inspirational speech, but I wouldn't go so far as to say it's terrible. He says he wants to close Gitmo, but can't bring the prisoners here because of opposition. I'm not sure how that works. Seems to me he could just bring them to military prisons here. Commander in Chief and all that.

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