OK. I stand corrected. Three months plus a few days.
You are deliberately misinterpreting my comment - following my above statement I was saying that this is now Obama's baby. He made an undertaking and has to follow this through with action. If there is a delay in hearings, then he has to answer for it.
I am almost certain that if the US should go for socialism that there will be more people dying as a result of "cheap" medical care available to all. There will be huge line-ups in hospitals, cancer victims delayed operations. Think it would be interesting to do research on the number of Canadians electing for medical care in the United States for that very reason.
I would not compare Western statements with those of Yemen. It is one of the extremist Islamic Governments, completely autocratic. You don't want to end up in a prison over there.
I'm not in the blame game. Obama is the Chief in Charge of the US. Bush is no longer around. Nothing personal. It is what it is. Obama now has to deal with the criticism, it sort of comes with the territory, sins of the fathers and all that. Politics is a dirty business.
Perhaps one has to look at other factors when one makes comparisons. Could be that Singapore's average population is much younger than that in the US. Since the US's average age must be getting older, there would be more people dying. Just one of the factors to look at. I don't pay much attention to statistics, as generally I think they are never really completely accurate. I would rather live in the US anyday than in Singapore.
That is bad. But then who should be paying? The American taxpayers?
The newspaper report about the Yemenis holding up the whole Gitmo closing process is not correct. There is a deadline of end of May for all files to be scrutinized before anybody will be released. There are also many others that the US cannot find homes for, including a Group of Chinese who cannot be returned to China and that other countries like Australia cannot accept.
No, I have not been to Singapore, but where I am there is quite a big link with Singapore. One thing I found is that people find it very difficult to get jobs in Singapore and the cost of living is of the highest in the world. Hence why they are always looking for opportunities outside their country, and in a very aggressive competitive way.
I thought they were detainees, and not prisoners. There is quite a difference between detainees and prisoners. It is Obama who created expectations of a quick processing, isn't it the first papers he signed when he became President? So quite a number of people who supported him thought he would move fast on the processing of the detainees to free those that should be freed. The expectation of processing the detainees with the objective of releasing those who need to be released is very real. Wasn't that central to the criticism of Bush? That he had been detaining people at Gitmo who had been wrongly accused? And should be free? Regular references were made to people who had been detained for as long as 7 years and the accusation that they could possibly be totally innocent was real. And no, Obama did not only sign off on closing of Guantanamo, but on moving the detainees to suitable alternative accommodation and expediting their processing. Perhaps he did not find this easy, as it was complicated from the very beginning, being the problem that the Bush Government had been facing as well. Perhaps also not enough recognition has been given for the clean-up that had been under way already by the time Obama signed the papers. Also, that not a single detainee has been freed after Obama took office and signed the papers. He put a monotarium on freeing the detainees until their files have been scrutinized by May.
I think Singaporeans would look after their own people first in that category, as Singaporeans at this level, generally are very highly educated and do their post-graduate education in Universities abroad, such as the US, the UK etc. I think you would have to be someone with absolutely exceptional credentials to be allowed to work there. That still leaves the other people without PhDs. I have not found anyone from Singapore yet who has not had supurb education, they all have very high education standards, but not all of them can find suitable employment in the Singapore. That is why one can find them all over the world.
Well, if the US would like to be successful in placing the detainees abroad, probably it is in their interest to stick with detainees. I doubt the world would stand for taking in US prisoners.
This is quite a recent article in Yahoo News:
Exactly, but then that is not the picture the world had via the media at the time when Obama became President. During his election campaign Obama received quite a bit of mileage out of the "innocent detainees" of Gitmo.
Americans decided they didn't like Barack Obama when they discovered, to their dismay, that they hadn't just voted Tiger Woods into office.
I don't know that I can choose any. I don't know enough about American political history to make an informed decision, and I think it would be tough as many were pretty awful.
Jokes aside, with Obama, I really think he is far off the worst. He's a centrist, and that's very nice, but I think he should run off and play, while the grown ups talk about what we should actually do to build a better society.
