MIKA IS A 60'S RADICAL
This morning he told Mika that she seemed to him like a 60s radical putting flowers into gun barrels, because she suggested that Bush-Rumsfeld-Ashcroft had made a "mess" out of how we go about detaining ... well, 'people grabbed', basically, including how their stand on Gitmo has alienated our allies and right-thinking people the world over.
"FOUR YEARS" WITHOUT TRIAL OKAY, JOE'S 'INSIGHT'
After exculpating himself (in his mind) because he had said he wanted trials "after four years", for people detained, Joe didn't go on to say how or why the 245 people at Gitmo have been pushed down the road for the next Administration to deal with, i.e. he didn't take up the cross of the Bush-Cheney failed legal strategy, the one that failed at the Supreme Court, even, a strategy which revised has hardly dispatched the situation adequately, to this day.
DETENTION BY DESIGNATION OF THE PRESIDENT, ALONE
Finally, the people in Gitmo are there on the say-so of the Chief Executive alone, right? Isn't it fair that a new Executive stop and look at the facts relied on by the prior Executive, case-by-case? Wouldn't that topology suggest the practical way forward for dealing with the left-over detainees from the Bush-Cheney failed legal strategy?
MORE, STUNNINGLY SUPERFICIAL
Update: Joe believes that it is possible for the U.S. to "surrender" to al-qa'ida - his word, to Chuck Todd. The guy is clinically addicted to "war", including the horrible conception of Rumsfeld, the "war on terror", a phrase so stunningly superficial that it's surprising that people aren't embarrassed to continue to use it.
Friday, January 23, 2009
Morning Joe, Still 'Stunningly Superficial'
