Waiting for the Utopia

Obama's campaign had promised change from the "old style of politics" and implied under him, we could easily fix all the problems. His dismissed his first promise by appointing many people who serve in the Clinton administration.

Although Obama gained much of his early support by promising to withdraw troops from Iraq, it doesn't look like he can or will. In order to appease the left, he will pick the low hanging fruit: banning waterboarding (an easy task after much of the harden terrorists have been caught or killed) and closing Guantanamo. However, with Guantanamo, he's still going to have to deal with the same issues Bush dealt with. I bet some will be released but many others with be moved to another prison elsewhere. In the eyes of the press, instead of "running a GUlag", Obama will be "navigating complex issues."

Only the most ardent Bush haters will release that he was dealing with complex issue without an easy solution:

Obama administration officials agree that certain Al Qaeda suspects at Guantánamo should be tried in federal or regular military courts rather than the special military commissions set up under President Bush. And they agree that many of the remaining 245 detainees can be returned to their home countries for release or further detention.

But there is less agreement over what to do with a potential third category of detainees – an uncertain number of terror suspects whose cases do not lend themselves to prosecution in civilian or military courts but who are viewed as too dangerous to release.