I took a lot of crap from several of my readers for supporting the policy to keep detainees retained indefinitely at Guantanamo bay. Many of those readers heavily criticized Bush and supported Obama in part because of his commitment to closing it down. Now that the Obama administration is has to wear man pants it looks like they are backing down from shutting Gitmo down.

With four months left to meet its self-imposed deadline for closing the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Obama administration is working to recover from missteps that have put officials behind schedule and left them struggling to win the cooperation of Congress.

Now that this issues has gone through both a republican and democratic administration, its probably safe to assume that their really are dangerous terrorists being detained at Guantanamo and their is no sufficient legal recourse to deal with them. Therefore, the most prudent policy is to keep them detained indefinitely. By the way, kudos to the Obama administration for deciding to make the hard decision of keeping Gitmo open despite having to take significant pressure from those on the left.

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