Originally Posted by Sly

He is more mocking the liberal stance than he is the conservative stance.

One of his big campaign issues was closing Guantánamo because it was so terrible and basically illegal... was it not? Or am I making that up? Now he is essentially saying that "hey wait a minute... I guess that isn't as easy as I wanted it to be... let's back up and hold the people instead because I, like the prior idiot, can't figure out WTF to do with them."

I don't really care what happens to those people. Their home countries don't want them, they really should not be on our home soil because it basically is "illegal detention", nobody else wants them... WTF do we do with them? Nobody knows. He should not have made such outlandish promises when it was at that time already pretty clear that closing the base was not as simple as shutting doors.