You could see this coming from a mile away. All the posturing doesn't mean anything when you have filibuster proof majorities in Congress and you choose not to fund the closure of Guantanamo Bay's detainee facility because the US hasn't figured out what to do with the terrorists held there.
No one wants to bring them into the US, and these aren't exactly people you want hanging around in your backyard.
The Administration wanted to close the facility, and it was among the first executive orders issued, but it was merely a wish list. The hard work of dealing with the reality as it is, not as the left wishes it to be, means that the Democrats have to come to grips with a national security issue on which they've repeatedly grandstanded. The Democrats, President Obama included, claimed they wanted to close Guantanamo Bay, but now that they're in a position to do so, they're finding excuses not to.
If the facility is as evil as they claim, they should have the political courage to close it. They do not.
The facility was never as evil or bad as the left claimed, and it did serve a useful purpose of keeping these terrorists from our shores and out of contact with their fellow jihadis. Shuttering the facility doesn't change the fact that these detainees need to be held somewhere - and that gets to the crux of the matter.
Those on the far left may want to see the detainees released, but even those Democrats who aren't on that fringe of the party know that they can't release the detainees. The evidence is overwhelming that those who are released can and do go back to jihad and waging war against the United States and our allies.
Guantanamo Bay may not be the perfect solution, but it's a far sight better than anything offered up by the Democrats.
UPDATE:
Allahpundit also weighs in and notices the quandary that Democrats have put themselves in.
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