[Grovenet] More on Guantanamo and humane treatment

[Geri]

Plus, we just can't please everyone.
I agree with you, Katie, when you say: "While he is
different than Bush, the changes that will show the
rest of the world how different he is will take time
to show up in the practices on the ground."

Many in the rest of the world are optimistic, too, as
we are ... but on the other hand, many aren't waiting
in order to make up their minds:

http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-37609420090122


Geri

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Katie Allnutt" <allnutt at verizon.net>
To: <obrzl at verizon.net>; "Forest Grove local interests list" <grovenet at rdrop.com>
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 3:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Grovenet] More on Guantanamo and humane treatment


The optimist in me says that it did.
The pessimist in me says that if it did, it will be fairly short lived.
It will only last until the next bomb is dropped in Pakistan,  
Afghanistan, Iraq, or Gaza. While he is different than Bush, the  
changes that will show the rest of the world how different he is will  
take time to show up in the practices on the ground.

Katie

On Jan 23, 2009, at 3:10 PM, mark oberzil wrote:

> Forgive me if this thought has already come up on Gnet.  But I have  
> yet to see any mention, here or in the press, of the idea that the  
> mere election of Barak Obama might greatly undermine efforts to  
> recruit terrorists worldwide.
>
> After 9/11, throughout the Islamic world there were posters of the  
> attacks on the twin towers.  It was like saying, "Look what we  
> did!  Come join us!"  The election of Barak Hussein Obama, albeit  
> seven years later, is like a collective turning of the other cheek  
> by America, saying, "and look what we did!"
>
> Of course the road ahead will be difficult.  But I for one cannot  
> help but believe that the job of every terror recruiter, every  
> suicide peddling Mullah, was made much more difficult by this one act.
>
> Mark
>

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