@wantedthefirstaccount to AskHistoriansEnglish • 3 months agoWhat exactly was the reason President Obama could not close Guantanamo Bay?message-square5arrow-up123arrow-down11
arrow-up122arrow-down1message-squareWhat exactly was the reason President Obama could not close Guantanamo Bay?@wantedthefirstaccount to AskHistoriansEnglish • 3 months agomessage-square5
minus-square@MiltownClownslinkEnglish35•3 months agoThere was nowhere to send the prisoners. US states wouldn’t take them, and freeing them wasn’t an option. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/obama-failed-close-guantanamo
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•3 months agoI remember this being the big reason. The US didn’t want to let them go, and no state wanted to take them.
There was nowhere to send the prisoners. US states wouldn’t take them, and freeing them wasn’t an option.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/obama-failed-close-guantanamo
I remember this being the big reason. The US didn’t want to let them go, and no state wanted to take them.