To the pleasure of Republicans and Independents and to the dissatisfaction of liberals, Obama has broken yet another campaign promise. Despite promising to close Guantanamo Bay within his first year in office, the administration is now opting to lift the 2-year freeze on military tribunals as well as reinstating the ability to detain terrorists without formal charges.
It is hard to disguise the fact that Mr Obama's lofty ambitions have been in a two-year-long collision with the nation. All attempts to bring terrorists to U.S. soil have been met with stiff opposition and have utterly failed. National security has been given a back seat to ideology, and Americans retaliated. While this capitulation is humiliating for Obama, it is necessary to eliminate this potentially hazardous campaign issue. I suspect we will see more “sticky issues” dealt with in order to clear the table for the campaign.
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