Obama LIED! He PROMISED to close down GITMO!

[OnyxCollie]

68. I like the way you think.

A realist theory of international politics will also avoid the other popular
fallacy of equating the foreign policies of a statesman with his philosophic
or political sympathies, and of deducing the former from the latter. Statesmen,
especially under contemporary conditions, may well make a habit of
presenting their foreign policies in terms of their philosophic and political
sympathies in order to gain popular support for them. Yet they will distinguish
with Lincoln between their "official duty," which is to think and act
in terms of the national interest, and their "personal wish," which is to see
their own moral values and political principles realized throughout the
world. Political realism does not require, nor does it condone, indifference
to political ideals and moral principles, but it requires indeed a sharp
distinction between the desirable and the possible-between what is desirable
everywhere and at all times and what is possible under the concrete
circumstances of time and place.

Morgenthau, H. (1948). Politics among nations: The struggle for power and peace (p. 7). New York: Knopf.