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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (732798)	8/15/2013 4:02:51 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1577178

>That's an even better example of his incompetence. It should have been as easy as issuing an executive order, shutting down the camp, and (finally) coming up with a policy for dealing with the inmates there stuck in legal limbo. The last part might be tricky, but Washington is full of well-educated lawyers so they should be able to deal with it. Pretty sure you're also concern trolling here (I'm not sure you really want Gitmo shut down), but it's Republicans that are keeping it from happening. They would scream bloody murder for so many reasons if he did that, and would put every roadblock in his way. Tell me I'm wrong. >Meanwhile, back in Egypt, another few hundred people died thanks to a military crackdown on pro-Morsi supporters. What does Obama do in response? He gets disappointed and gives a speech telling Egypt and the rest of the world how disappointed he is. Aside from cutting off aid, what do you want him to do right now? Just start dropping bombs? You throw around the "law of unintended consequences" all the time, why wouldn't it apply here? > And it's a shame that you think Obama can do absolutely nothing about it. Talk about having extremely low standards for the POTUS ... I honestly don't know what the right move is here... when we do nothing, we end up with situations like Darfur and Rwanda. When we do something, we end up with Iraq and Afghanistan. It's fairly rare that our intervention in situations like this helps anything. By the way, I did some reading up on the aid today; apparently over $1 billion of the $1.3 billion a year goes right back to American military contractors and that we'd likely be on the hook for paying those contractors directly if we cut the aid. -Z