But of course. Obama won’t close it within the year as he promised the left, so he’s already breaking their little moonbat hearts. Why give the Republicans a mid-term election issue? Sure, it’s still on track for closure. But there’s a big difference in a political campaign between pointing out your opponent has done something and pointing out your opponent has the intention of doing something. The latter doesn’t quite have the same impact.

Which isn’t to say that Obama’s plan all along was to leave the detention facility in operation. I’m almost positive he thought swift closure would be possible after a few hopenchangey speeches to both the domestic audience and global community. He’s a classroom theorist; one of the Kumbaya singers at your college’s peace protest. He thinks everything can be solved by talking and opening up America’s arms for a hug to the world.

Violence, such as the escalation in Afghanistan, was politically necessary. Americans might not have been crazy about sending more troops to the sand trap, but they’re even less crazy their country losing a war. And the end result of said loss.

Actually, I don’t think his heart is in closing the facility anymore. In fact, I’m pretty sure he’d just leave it open indefinitely were it not for his far-left base. He’s still a liberal ideologue on domestic issues and talks like one on foreign policy, be he seems to have been mugged by reality over the past year.

We now have word he’s working on unilateral sanctions against Iran, he’s ramping up drone attacks in Pakistan, and he gave a Nobel speech that George W. Bush could’ve presented. And now Gitmo will be closed sometime in 2010. Or 2011. Or sometime after that point.