Bob,
You're probably correct. I was just reading in The Devil's Chessboard where
when Kennedy assumed office, the young progressive people in his
administration were urging him to fire Alan Dulles and J. Edgar Hoover, and
all of his speeches and his apparent instinctds, seemed to lean in that
direction. But, his eager advisors were shocked to learn that he'd retained
both men and his reason was that he hadn't won the Presidency with a large
enough majority to feel that he had the political capital to make big
changes in policy. I thought about that when considering how happy people on
the Left were to hear Sanders talk about America's history of imperialism in
the third world in the debate the other night. Well, I'm sure he believes
what he said, but that doesn't ensure that the US policy would change if he
became President.
Miriam
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Close Guantanamo and Return It to Cuba
Hi All,
While I agree with the author here, I doubt Obama will close Guantanamo and
return it to Cuba. While Obama may want to do so in principle, I think that
there's way too much politics running through his veins. That is, he will
refuse to do the right thing here because of the impact on the 2016
presidential election. Can you imagine how the Republican candidates for
president and Congress will react? They'll claim he's soft on terrorists and
that a vote for Clinton or any other Democrat is a vote to cede power to the
terrorists.
I sure do hope I'm wrong here because by maintaining the prison at
Guantanamo and holding prisoners without charge or trial of some sort means
that we're no better than the Soviet Union or any other dictatorship.
Bob Hachey
