Consider This Washington: Less Talk, More Action

According to a New York Times news article from June 22, 2007, Bush advisors are 'considering closing the Guantánamo detention center sooner.' Sooner than when? Sooner than scientists discover a cure for cancer? Sooner than NASA demystifies the complex enigma of how to sustain human life on Mars? Guantanmo Bay was leased to United States in 1903. Hopefully the Bush Administration decide sooner than another innocent person's life is unjustly stolen in the name of justice and defense against terrorism.

Previously, the debate over whether or not keep the Guantánamo Bay facility was not up for debate because of various high ranking officials that were opposed to the idea. Such officials include Vice President Dick Cheney, former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld's previous secretary Stephen A. Cambone, and Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales- among probable others. But now that certain officials are either out of office or have lost their influence, the issue of whether or not to keep Guantánamo Bay open has finally been re-opened for debate.

Reporter David Stout claims that the alternative motives for the re-opening of this debate are as follows: 'the detention facility has been tainting the image of the United States, and because it has been hampering America's campaign against terrorism." Regarding the former statement: as if war, consistent deception of Americans and non-Americans, and corruption haven't already tainted the "image of the United States." Regarding the latter statement, as if indirectly supporting terrorist countries by supplying them with weapons of mass destruction has not already "hampered America's campaign against terrorism."

Stout also reports that "President Bush has said repeatedly that he wants to shut down the detention operation at Guantánamo...but that it is not possible to do so in the near future." This may sound cliché, but I believe that when there is a will, there is a way. And how near in the future does Georgy have in mind? Could he be more vague?