Von Brandenburg-Preußen

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/obama_inauguration/7843864.stm

i’m suprised that you are so quick to criticise, on this issue, someone who actually managed to vote against the iraq war.

It would have been a marvellous platform, given the vast US and worldwide audience, to give thanks to our servicemen and women who have given their lives in these conflicts and who continue to serve.

If successive US administrations had stood by the UK to the same degree, maybe our problems in Northern Ireland would have been alleviated sooner.

Von Brandenburg-Preußen.

Surely any country outside of the EU will refuse to take back any inmates, and if they can be persuaded will simply imprison them, perhaps in even worse conditions.

Repatriating the inmates in the USA is politically impossible, repatriating them to their own countries is politically dangerous.

No-one will want these suspected terrorists, well, anyone that does want them will probably just want them as a source of intelligence.

Had Obama been in charge pre-1776 the US would still be a British colony of course, because his anti-gun stance would have disarmed the minutemen.

Guantanamo is either right or wrong; if it’s right ~ continue, if it’s wrong ~ close the place. He’s had long enough to decide. To simply kick it into the long grass is hopeless. Day 1, policy 1 ~ Dither.

I was less worried about the lack of financial detail about more bailouts because frankly a ‘do-nothing’ Obama maybe rather better than a ‘borrow-more’ Obama.

The most serious mistake, having Hilary Clinton on board. I would not have someone responsible for foreign relations who had to put it mildly “extensive ties” with foreign donors*. It may create the impression of a conflict of interest. Also I would like someone who knows whether or not they were shot at, in the Balkans, as that detail is rather important.

(*Ed ~ this is not in doubt or contraversial, do a simply Google search, it is widely reported in the mainstream US media)