Things Are Never As Easy As We Would Like Them To Be

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Barack Obama comes into office with a number of challenges and promises he made as to how he would deal with these challenges.  Unfortunately, reality is already beginning to sink in, and some of those promises will be stretched considerably.  For example, there are two interesting articles on Hot Air right now. 

The first is titled Going Backwards on Indefinite Detention deals with the challenges of Guantanamo--the prisoners there were generally captured on the battlefield fighting us--they are dangerous--and how much intelligence can they give us on Al Qaeda?  What do we do with them?  This is further complicated by the fact that many of their countries of origin do not want them back.  If we put them in American courts, we have classified information problems, we cost the taxpayers millions of dollars in legal fees, and we choke the legal system with people who are not (nor have ever been) American citizens.  How dumb is that?  The wisdom of George Bush in putting these people in Guantanamo is becoming obvious.  I am glad that we have not executed any of them, although there may be some there deserving of that fate, but that is another matter which I am sure will come up in the future.

The second article is titled Missile Defense Likely To Continue.  This story refers to a Time Magazine article stating that because of the recent statements and actions of Russia, the cold war seems to be on again, and Barack Obama would be wise not to back down by discontinuing missile defense plans for Europe. 

It's interesting to me that if these changes actually happen, they will occur after Barack Obama received his first Presidential Security Briefing.  I have no idea what is contained in these briefings (nor do I want to know), but I suspect that they are enough to curl your hair.  We live in a very dangerous world, and it is a tribute to the leadership we have in this country that we can live without fear and in comfort in that world.

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