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wantedthefirstaccount@lemmy.world to AskHistorians@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago

What exactly was the reason President Obama could not close Guantanamo Bay?

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What exactly was the reason President Obama could not close Guantanamo Bay?

wantedthefirstaccount@lemmy.world to AskHistorians@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago
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  • MiltownClowns@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    There was nowhere to send the prisoners. US states wouldn’t take them, and freeing them wasn’t an option.

    https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/obama-failed-close-guantanamo

    • Notyou@sopuli.xyz
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      I remember this being the big reason. The US didn’t want to let them go, and no state wanted to take them.

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    Expending the political capital necessary to push it through would have consumed his presidency in the process. It was a matter of priorities within the political reality of the era.

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      Or, more succinctly, it was inconvenient.

      Also, imperialism.

  • mashbooq@infosec.pub
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    Congress wouldn’t let him, iirc

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