Biden, unlike Obama, not overpromising on closing Gitmo

President Barack Obama signed Executive Order 13492 just 2 days into his presidency ordering the closing of the American gulag at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

At the time 245 detainees were still held there, down from nearly 800 at the height of U.S. hysteria over Middle East terrorism. Many were innocent dupes rounded up in Afghanistan to secure an American bounty.

Obama trumpeted this shameful prison, where the concept of prisoner justice doesn’t exist, would be history within a year. Congress, still fanning the flames of Islamophobia, said no by prohibiting funds for its closure nor approval of sending some of the imagined bad guys to supermax prisons.

Gitmo survived Obama’s first year and the seven following. Obama’s successor Trumped loved Gitmo. He got rid of just a single prisoner there in his four years, leaving his successor Biden with 40 remaining hapless souls that cost Joe Taxpayer $25 million dollars annually.

Now Biden hopes to finish the job his former boss started twelve and a half years ago. He’s quietly working the machinery of government to make Gitmo history by the end of his term. No one year promise from Biden. He’s a realist.

The disgusting Islamophobia that infects America is still lurking in Congress to keep 40 hapless souls imprisoned in the shame of America till they die of old age…or suicide.