GEORGE BUSH wanted to close it. Sodid John McCain. And Barack Obama promised to do so within a year of taking office. Butnearly three years since then, and ten years after the first inmates stepped through itsbarbed-wired gates in January 2002, the prison camp at Guantnamo Bay remainsstubbornly open.
关塔那摩战俘营。乔治.布什曾想关闭它,约翰.麦凯恩也想这样做。奥巴马更是许诺在上任第一年内就将其废弃。而现在,他的总统任期已过了近三年;而自2002年一月,第一批战犯踏入铁丝网包裹的大门起,都已经过了十年。位于关塔那摩海湾的战俘营却依旧存在,照常运行。
It is, perhaps, the most glaring failure of Mr Obamas first term. On his second full day inoffice, surrounded by 16 retired generals and admirals, he signed the order to close thefacility that he said had probably created more terrorists than it ever detained. Withmajorities in both chambers of Congress he looked set to make good on his pledge. Therewas just one problem: the president had a timetable, but no plan.
或许没有关闭关塔那摩战俘营就是奥巴马第一任期内最大的败笔。在他正式行使总统职权的第二天,在16位退休将军和海军上将的注视下,他签署命令关闭关塔那摩战俘营,他曾表示由于这座战俘营的存在而引发出的恐怖分子有可能比在押者还要多。此时在国会两院中民主党都享有多数票优势,一切都与他许诺的也一般无二,看上去他就要关闭关塔那摩战俘营了。问题只有一个:总统有的只是张时间表,却没有任何操作计划。
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