I mean, damn...this was one of my biggest complaints about Obama's presidency. The warmongering, lack of him trying his damnedest for a true universal healthcare option, not closing Gitmo, and his expansion of the spying on American people were some of my biggest complaints about his presidency, lies, and failed campaign promises.
But he's marking one of those off the list. Sure, he's very very very late on the action but he's still going to deliver. Awesome!
If he puts a stop to the spying on Americans, I'll shift my opinion from "disapprove" to "approve."
"However, when Congress passed their annual spending bill in November, they made sure to restrict President Obama from relocating any Guantanamo detainees to the United States."
How exactly does this work? Like, why doesn't Obama just relocate whoever he wants to wherever he wants? If Congress complains, he should just tell them to go **** themselves. What are they going to do? Complain? Whine about executive overreach? Sue him?
Does Congress have an actual concrete de facto ability to stop Obama? If the answer to that is no, than Obama should give those Republican ****s the bird and do whatever he wants.
From my [shallow] understanding, the problem is money. As Commander-in-Chief Obama can unilaterally close military installations as needed, but Congress controls the military's purse-strings. What they've basically done is say "we can't stop you from closing GitMo, but we won't fund any attempt to transfer the prisoners to the US."
So essentially, if Obama closed GitMo there'd be scores of potential terrorists with nowhere to go.
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I'm not saying close the base, just the prison. We can still keep the naval base, there's just no point in having the prison. Although, while we're on the subject, I'm not really sure how valuable the base really is in the post Cold War era. It's not as if Cuba is that far away from America. If a war started we could have assets in Cuba within a day with or without the base.
And actually, closing the prison (and naval base) would go a long, long way to making trade talks with Cuba go smoother.
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More sugar means less corn-syrup, which means less cornfields. Sure the corn industry will hate it, but real sugar taste better and is healthier than that shit poison high fructose corn-syrup.
The US auto industry could also potentially make a nice dollar selling in Cuba.
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