Guantanamo Bay 365 days and counting down

Oh well, the detention camp for terrorists in Cuba will be closed within a year. Guantanamo Bay (Gitmo) had become the lightening rod for all those who disagreed with the Bush approach to the War on Terror and so it must go.

Obviously, the US does not need Gitmo to fight terrorism, as there are many ways to accomplish its primary objectives; keeping captured Al Queda and Taliban operatives isolated and out of the US civilian court system.

Careful examination would show that the Bush administration has essentially been trying to undo Gitmo for years but there are two main problems:
1) Finding a home for the prisoners we want to release but no nation wants to receive. Afghanistan under the Taliban had become a new Mecca for extremists. The detainees at GB hail from many nations. These nations do not want these extremists back.
2) Either executing or keeping in custody the relatively small number of Gitmo detainees who actually planned and participated in attacks upon the United States. Much of the information needed to convict these detainees was obtained through potentially "illegal" means.

The big change so far is that the Obama administration has put a time frame upon itself. In the end, if the two points made above are not fully addressed, we are likely to see a couple of smaller Gitmo like facilities created elsewhere in the world.