What exactly was the reason President Obama could not close Guantanamo Bay?
What exactly was the reason President Obama could not close Guantanamo Bay?
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There was nowhere to send the prisoners. US states wouldn't take them, and freeing them wasn't an option.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/obama-failed-close-guantanamo
35I remember this being the big reason. The US didn't want to let them go, and no state wanted to take them.
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Expending the political capital necessary to push it through would have consumed his presidency in the process. It was a matter of priorities within the political reality of the era.
13Or, more succinctly, it was inconvenient.
Also, imperialism.
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Congress wouldn't let him, iirc
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