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I am, and General Petraeus is.Who is talking about a "current direction?"
That's because you were busily engaging in a game of "let's argue over process or plan" semantics. I already told you this.I didn't see that in the premise of this thread.
He has commissioned his administration and the DOJ to actually develop a plan for closing GITMO down so he can make it happen.How is this direction any different from the PREVIOUS administration?
Here we go again. Yay...you win the word game. He endorsed Obama's direction and has endorsed that current state of the plan development.The premise of the thread was clear; it maintains that Petreaus endorsed Obama’s PLAN to close Gitmo. There is no Obama PLAN and Petreaus did not endorse anything in his comments.
Please indicate the exact quote where Petreaus is endorsing Obama’s plans.
General Patraeus said:"With respect to Guantanamo," Petraeus added, "I think that the closure in a responsible manner, obviously one that is certainly being worked out now by the Department of Justice -- I talked to the Attorney General the other day [and] they have a very intensive effort ongoing to determine, indeed, what to do with the detainees who are left, how to deal with them in a legal way, and if continued incarceration is necessary -- again, how to take that forward. But doing that in a responsible manner, I think, sends an important message to the world, as does the commitment of the United States to observe the Geneva Convention when it comes to the treatment of detainees."
I don't care what the thread author's premise was, I care what General Patraeus says. And he said it loud and clear. I'll leave you to your emotional struggle over the differences between the concept of a "plan", "planning", and "process." If you try hard enough, you might beat whoever it is you are fighting with.What part of this premise do you NOT get?