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Ignorance is not bliss

On Kelly’s Facebook page, he predicted that Guantanamo Bay prison would still be open 6 months from now and we’d still have a significant presence in Iraq 1 year from now. His Obama maniac friend responded: Come on, Kelly, can’t you be optimistic about anything relating to the Obama presidency? I responded to that, saying I agreed with Kelly and would only get optimistic about things that deserved optimism, and furthermore that 8 years and 8 years are more accurate projections.

Well, it turns out that I was wrong, apparently, and Obama will at least attempt to close the Gitmo prison in his first year as president. Kelly was right, technically, in that will still be operating as normal 6 months from now, but I will wager that he didn’t expect Obama to sign an executive order closing it on his second day in office.

My disdain for Obama and the Democrats, my disgust with the sound of each of their voices, and my dismissal of everything they do and say as evil, fascist-socialist Statism, while correct and justified, leaves me unaware of many of their specific policy positions. This makes making predictions, which I am already bad at, quite difficult. I didn’t realize the closing of Guantanamo Bay was such an important issue on the Obama regime’s agenda. Maybe that was widely known, or maybe only people who follow his policies closely (a small minority of the people who voted him) expected him to close it soon. Either way I’m surprised and cautiously impressed.

What will fully impress me is if the prisoners there who are detained unconstitutionally are actually either tried before a jury or released to their home countries, wherever those are (I’m pretty sure some of them are Americans. Maybe another thing I need to actually look into.) They had better not be transferred to different military prisons, or else I’m going to renege on my admission of wrongness with full fury.

I think Obama’s opinions on Iraq and Afghanistan are more widely known, and my impression is that he plans to increase American military presence in Afghanistan while doing nothing close to giving up or withdrawing in Iraq. This is a terrible foreign policy scarcely different from the neoconservative one. I hardly see how he could expect to gain or maintain much power in our Imperial Federal Government without those positions, though. I think there will be a significant American military presence in both Afghanistan and Iraq on the last day of Obama’s presidency, as will there be in most other countries where the Imperial Federal Government has military bases and personnel. I won’t be surprised if the numbers in Iraq and Afghanistan are almost as high as they are today.

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