# Guantanamo is STILL open. Why isn't the left bitching about it? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [February 26, 2012, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guantanamo-is-still-open-why-isnt-the-left-bitching-about-it/614046 "2012-02-26T08:18:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guantanamo-is-still-open-why-isnt-the-left-bitching-about-it/614046/4 "2012-02-26T09:01:01Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > People can complain about as many issues as they want. They can in theory, yes. In reality, people focus. > [@](#): > > On the news, in the media, and on these boards Gitmo has not been an issue since Bush left office. Right, you can see from the linked threads about Gitmo that nobody talks about Gitmo anymore… Wait. I have a feeling that didn’t make sense somehow. > [@](#): > > Intentional or not, you’ve probably given the only real honest answer I expect to receive here. To add to it, “fashionable to do so” ended at 12:01pm, EST, January 20th, 2009. It was intentional, just as your misreading of what I wrote is intentional. 😉 Not surprising, since you’ve been banging this drum for about two years now. I don’t think the left are hypocrites on this issue: they’re against indefinite detentions at Gitmo. A larger chunk of the public, however, decided they thought Gitmo was bad until their Congressmen started scaring them by talking about the detainees as if no prison could hold them. Keeping them in Cuba is fine, but if you put them in jails on the continent, who knows - all hell could break loose somehow. Without broader support, there was no way to get Congress to vote to shut the place down. In any case your own posts indicate you just want to call people hypocrites on this issue and are struggling to find a reason: > [@Explain the neocon "Better Hillary Than McCain" thing](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-the-neocon-better-hillary-than-mccain-thing/437061/20): > > [McCain’s] positions on waterboarding, the Fisa court warrants, and Guantanamo show a weak will on the fight against terror. > [@Are You "Obamaed-Out"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-obamaed-out/480795/32): > > Not that I give a shit, mind you. Keep the place open! So that makes it hard to take this seriously. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guantanamo-is-still-open-why-isnt-the-left-bitching-about-it/614046)._