c/askhistorians · by wantedthefirstaccount@lemmy.world · 1yWhat exactly was the reason President Obama could not close Guantanamo Bay? 22 points · 5 comments · view on lemmy.world
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MiltownClowns@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 1y
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
Notyou@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 1y
I remember this being the big reason. The US didn't want to let them go, and no state wanted to take them.
ultranaut@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
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.
sakodak@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 1y
Or, more succinctly, it was inconvenient.
Also, imperialism.
mashbooq@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 1y
Congress wouldn't let him, iirc