Senator Brownback Returns From Gitmo

The Corner has an interesting post here on comments he made after returning from Gitmo. It is well worth a read. There is not much I disagree with here. He hits on a lot of stuff but this is interesting to note

At the heart of European and Muslim objections on U.S. detainment policy, Brownback said, "it isn't Guantanamo Bay per se. It is that you're detaining these individuals at all. A number of countries in Europe believe they should have been tried already...If we move them to another facility but don't try some of the detainees," which is currently President Obama's plan, "then the European objection remains. And the same in the Muslim world — they don't believe we should be detaining them at all. So you move them to another location, but the objection remains...The target of their disgust becomes San Quentin or a military facility in some other state instead of Guantanamo Bay....For that reason, the Obama administration doesn't get what it wants by closing Guantanamo Bay."

Isn't that true to a great extent? The questions is does Obama get a pass because he does have suffer a version of Bush derangement syndrome. I mean lets face it where are the protesters now. We are detaining people at the little air force base in Afghanistan and no one seems to care. Out of site out of mind or at least not 90 miles off our coast that we saw in the Tom Cruise movie.

The Catholic left I monitor is not yelling about it. We pretty much still have the same practice on rendition. SO as to Europe will they care. Seems like to me that without changing policy much Obama is preety much Bush lite on this.