To: Sully- who wrote (78241 ) 3/9/2010 9:09:30 PM From: Sully- 1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) | Respond to The World Goes Silent on Guantanamo? Given that there is now almost no leftwing furor over Guantanamo—reminding us that the problem was probably never the detention center per se, but rather the liberal narrative of George Bush as outlaw—there seems to have been an administration decision made not to worry much about reneging on the pledge to have closed it by January 2010. however—the apparent silence among Guantanamo's critics in the so-called world community. Here at home we finally learned that the Bush as Constitution-shredder writ—based on the employment of tribunals, renditions, intercepts, wiretaps, troops in Iraq, the use of Predator drones—was not principled, but partisan, and so disappeared when Bush left and Obama embraced all his predecessor’s anti-terrorism protocols (and, indeed, in some cases trumping them, such as Predator targeted assassinations).corner.nationalreview.com
