Club Gitmo Will Stay Open

In yet another Friday night news dump the Obama Administration has admitted that Club Gitmo, resort paradise for anti-American terrorists, will remain open.  They're trying to spin this as the fault of Congress:

Still, some senior officials say privately that the administration has done its part, including identifying the Illinois prison — an empty maximum-security center in Thomson, 150 miles west of Chicago — where the detainees could be held. They blame Congress for failing to execute that endgame.

“The president can’t just wave a magic wand to say that Gitmo will be closed,” said a senior administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss internal thinking on a sensitive issue. …

But wait! I take you to Thursday, January 22, 2009, just two days into the Obama fiasco:

Promising to return America to the "moral high ground" in the war on terrorism, President Obama issued three executive orders Thursday to demonstrate a clean break from the Bush administration, including one requiring that the Guantanamo Bay detention facility be closed within a year.

I guess you can "wave a magic wand to say that Gitmo will be closed". Sadly for Obama, there was no magic in his wand. It takes more than rainbows and unicorns to move terrorists from a safe, secure facility offshore to American soil in the middle of the heartland.

This decision is sure to enrage those in Obama's leftist base who look at Gitmo as the source of all evil in the world.  After all, they've been telling us that Gitmo has only created more terrorism, not helped stop it.

Why would Obama want to create more terrorism?

Neither Obama nor the left want to admit that keeping terrorists at Gitmo is exactly the right place for them, and that bringing them to American soil would create all kinds of new legal problems.  Let's let the bad boys continue to enjoy their Cuban paradise.  It's where they belong and it's where American want them to be.