President-elect Barack Obama, pictured in October 2008, said he would shut down the "war on terror" internment camp at Guantanamo Bay and rebuild "America's moral stature in the world," in a major interview aired Sunday. (AFP/File/Emmanuel Dunand)From Yahoo News/AFP:
WASHINGTON (AFP) – President-elect Barack Obama vowed to pull troops out of Iraq, crush Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and shut down the Guantanamo Bay camp as part of a dramatic foreign policy break with George W. Bush.
In his first major post-election interview, with CBS program "60 Minutes," the Democrat signaled no retreat from expansive campaign promises that have pleased US allies, even while adding little detail to how he will fulfill them.
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My Comment: We will still need to wait for the details on how he will close Guantanamo Bay and be able to accommodate the legal status of the prisoners there. His Afghan strategy is still vague, and the willingness to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq is now moot since an agreement has already been signed.