Can you see the similarity between President Obama's announcement to close Gitmo in one year and JFK's goal of having a man on the moon by the end of the decade?
In both cases, neither could specifically say how it would be accomplished. They just had a sense that once they set an important goal and put the best in minds on achieving it, it would get done. Of course, they had preliminary discussions and studies and understood the main issues and possible solutions, but what they did, as executives, was set a goal, and expectation - a reasonable timetable.
The Bush years will soon be viewed as an anomaly by the rest of the world, a brief period in our long history where we fell into the wrong hands, were overcome by fear, lost our moral compass and became decidedly un-American.
With the Gitmo closing deadline, President Obama announced to the world that the America they used to know was coming back.
He provided a little less reason to hate us and a chance to start admiring us again.
Perhaps most significantly he showed what every competent executive knows; deadline is not a dirty word.
John Dyce
Lorida
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