MORE FROM OUR EUROPEAN "ALLIES" - AT 7:02 A.M. ET:  From The New York Times:

European countries that have offered to help the Obama administration close the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, have begun raising questions about the security risks and requirements if they accept prisoners described by the Bush administration as “the worst of the worst,” according to diplomats and other officials.

The concerns, and a deep suspicion of whether the American intelligence community will share full information on the prisoners, are likely to complicate the resettlement effort, which is critical to President Obama’s fulfilling his pledge to close Guantánamo within a year of his taking office.

COMMENT:  I love it.  Don't you?  For years these countries have been lecturing us about "values."  But ask them to do anything to put teeth behind their lectures, and immediately the hedging starts.  Object, if you wish, to the Bush administration's "unilateralism."  Maybe they had no other choice. 

March 16, 2009