How will Arabs judge Obama's Gitmo policy?

it serves only our mortal enemies and the Republicans. Get it off our necks and out of a town once run by a Medal of Honor winner (Buckley) and an honorable service, the Navy.

An albatross? Only to those that suscribe to the liberal media as the source for our values. Gitmo is a model for incarceration. The legal issues are complicated because the detainees are not subject to the Geneva Convention. They are thugs, hired guns, criminals. The issue with the detainees can be solved by prosecution. If found guilty, there is no need to move them, they already have the best accomodations convicted criminals can have. If found not guilty we need to repatriate them and pay a stipend for their wrongful incorporation.

Not to beat a dead horse here -- especially since I broadly agree with Lynch's characterization of Guantanamo as a foreign policy problem -- but his description of the "broad middle" is less than complete.

In predominantly Muslim countries there is opposition to terrorism when it claims Muslim victims, but in Arab countries what counts are Arab victims, or even Arab Sunni Muslim victims. Terrorism against non-Arab (Darfur) or non-Sunni Arab (Iraq) Muslims appears to be viewed much less negatively; it can and has been characterized as legitimate resistance and defended against "Western imperialist" criticism. Pakistan presents an additional complication, with some Pashtun groups simultaneously promoting terrorism in Afghanistan and opposing it in their own neighborhoods, while the government has subsidized and fought the same groups using the same terrorist tactics against the same targets for years, often with substantial public support.

These aspects of how terrorism is viewed in various Muslim countries may define some limits to how much any Obama policy with respect to Guantanamo can achieve. It is likely that in some Muslim countries -- some of the Arab countries plus Pakistan -- the objection to Guantanamo goes well beyond the detention of people not involved in terrorism of any kind. President Obama has been right to be very clear about not intending to release detainees considered dangerous, but this intention by itself represents a departure from the evident thinking among some Arabs (though among smaller numbers of non-Arab Muslims), for whom what Guantanamo represents is not unlawful detention of non-terrorists but unjust detention of fighters for legitimate Arab causes.

Obama is bound to be accused of not matching words with deeds no matter what he does about Guantanamo. This is not an argument for not trying to get this right, or for not seeking opportunities to exploit fissures in Arab opinion or, crucially, between Arab opinion and opinion in non-Arab Muslim countries. It is only an observation as to the thankless nature of the task he has inherited.

Arabs/Muslims are not the only people hoping President Obama's deeds will match his words. Surely the Americans who elected him also have that expectation, as do people in many other countries.

At least three Canadian citizens have been victimized by ant-terrorism measures. These include a Guantanamo detainee held for six years since the age of 15 without being found guilty of anything, a man seeking reparations for having been inexplicably abducted by American officials and sent to Syria where he was tortured, and a man held for years in a Sudanese jail based on American information but yet to be charged with, or cleared of, anything. A judge described the latter case as closely resembling Kafka's "The Trial".

The Canadian government has appeared reluctant to do anything to upset the American government with respect to such cases. For this reason, many Canadians, and people in other Western countries with similar situations, are looking to President Obama and hoping he will keep his promise with respect to the application of the most basic principles of justice. Perhaps unlike many Arabs/Muslims, we have confidence that he will.

Yesterday, the Democrats.org blog featured an excerpt from a story we received from Kristine Reger, a life-long Wisconsinite and mother of three who attended President Obama’s Health Care Town Hall in Green Bay. Today, we asked Kristine to write a guest post to share her full story:
Hi everyone. I submitted my health care story to Organizing for America online, and they’ve asked me to write a guest blog about my experience. Here's what I can tell you:
Though I'm a lifelong Democrat, my husband and I raised our three kids in a mostly Republican suburb. For years and years, I kind of rolled over and skirted political conversations with my friends and neighbors. I didn’t want to engage in debate.

Then last fall, after more than 20 years, I finally decided to have the courage of my convictions. Barack Obama inspired me to get involved. I wasn’t happy with the direction of our country and I thought to myself: enough is enough. I spent lots of time researching the issues and learning about then-Senator Obama’s positions. Eventually, I figured out that I could make a real difference in my own network of family and friends by reaching out to people through email and responding to all the emails going around that I knew weren’t true. You know what I learned? My friends are still my friends. People have started coming to me to understand what’s going on; they rely on me to tell them the truth.

Since the election, President Obama has inspired me to stay involved. I think he’s so sensible and so right on so many of the issues I care about. I woke up at 5am yesterday to attend the Health Care Town Hall in Green Bay. It was fascinating – great questions, so much excitement and not an inch of space in the room.

Unfortunately my health care story is not unique, it’s typical. My husband and his business partner run a small machine shop their fathers’ founded in the 1950s. They’ve always provided their employees with single and family coverage, but as premiums have become more expensive, they’ve been forced to modify the kind of coverage they provide. Between this year and last, costs have increased 8 percent. In order to continue to provide health insurance, they’ve had to switch to a high deducible plan. Last year, they paid $132,000 in health care costs for a plan with a $2,500 deductible. Those costs are cutting into their profits and eating into our family income. Truth be told, the policy isn’t all bad – there are actually some great things about it. For example, all our preventative care, including physicals, mammograms and colonoscopies, are covered regardless of whether or not we’ve reached our deductible. That focus on preventative care is great - its something a reform plan should build on. But when you add up all the costs of our plan, we have to spend an awful lot to receive any of the benefits.

It’s true that we’re in the midst of a terrible recession. But I don't think maintaining the status quo when it comes to health care is an option. I keep thinking if small businesses like my husband’s are the life blood of our economy, how will it ever bounce back when small business owners can’t eek out a profit because health care costs are so high?

Everyone I know cares about this issue – my Republican friends care just as much as my Democratic ones. We’re all living with the consequences of a broken system. Though we might not all agree on the exact solution, we all agree something has to be done. If people see a part of themselves in my story, and are inspired to get involved, then maybe we’ll be able to make the people in Washington pay attention to us and get something done.

Kristine Reger is a life-long Wisconsinite and mother of three. She worked as a high school English teacher before staying at home to raise her children for 19 years. She is currently a self-employed travel agent. Kristine attended President Obama’s Health Care Town Hall in Green Bay, WI on Thursday.

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