Closing Gitmo…

This is   Obama’s order to close Gitmo:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/ClosureOfGuantanamoDetentionFacilities/

It would be more appropriately entitled  “A Pronouncement to Get  Me Creds From the Left and Have the World Love Me While My Guys Form  a Panel to Study Everything and Buy Me a Year Before I Have To Set  Up a New Gitmo Somewhere and My Attorney General  Creates  an Out  For Me On Interrogations.”

Make no mistake, he has left an escape hatch  whereby he can get legal opinions so he  isn’t restricted to the Army Field Manuel,    which ex-CIA agent Mike Baker  correctly says wouldn’t persuade a recalcitrant American teenager.  And notice Sec. 8 b — the entire plan to create a plan is  “subject to the availability of appropriations.”

It’s very clever politics, and utterly cynical leadership.  We will see  much more of this having it both ways,  just as His Oneness did during the campaign.

Of course, after making the appropriate noises of approval,  Europe is now going from “congratulations!” to “we can’t take them unless the USA certifies them as harmless.”  Obama’s charm doesn’t seem to be enough just yet.