I’m all for closing Gitmo, with our men at a safe distance and nuking it closed. No more detainees.
Coronagold on June 10, 2009 at 8:21 AM

+1

Two birds with one stone.

Good greif isnt the Moro Muslim insurgency in nearby Mindano Phillipines close enough to be a threat and aid to these guys ?

William Amos on June 9, 2009 at 6:09 PM

Cost, in Palau/Obama “stimulus” dollars, for 17 plane tickets for the Uighers to join up with the Al Qaeda trained Muslim Islamic Liberation Front in Mindanao (800km away) = $200 million.

“Resettlement” accomplished.

Errr… except for the fact that the Uighers arent terrorists.

What were they doing in Afghanistan?

And then throw them all in the nearest volcano.

A few weeks ago, the Christian Science Monitor had a story about one of the 2007 Uighurs. Interesting.

Albania accepted the first bunch…Bush said,m here they are…and lo and behold, they moved to Tirana.

Why won’t Albania accept the rest? Or, is there something about these particular Uighurs that the Administration isn’t talking about?

N’ahh, they wouldn’t do that, would they? Not tell us?

Why Palau? It appears to be the last country in the world besides China that the Obama administration can ask

Nonsense! I can think of another juicy tourist attraction.

If they are “harmless” then let them apply for immigration.

If they are not…well, foisting them off on a very small country for mega-bucks seems a bit tacky, to say the least.

Back in the 60′s LBJ et al had a problem with the then teritories in the pacific. Because of Bikini and Kwajalein they wanted to keep them under US control, but they also wanted to expand Kennedy’s Peace Corp and the island groups had requested them.

So a program was set up by the PC – the islanders flocked to it filled with high hopes of getting the “best and the brightest” – specifically people with leadership talent.

As usual, when the gov is at cross-purposes with its self, it opted for the lowest common denominator. The PC was instructed to can all those volunteers with leadership potential because they just might think about encouaging the Blauans et al to become independant. Send only the second best, prefferably the third tier just to be safe.

And so it was. Sersek er’a ka’sus – the snake is in the grass.

Having long experience with snakes and not particually liking them, the Islanders went balistic and within months declared their independance from the US.

“Stick it LBJ…”

And now with their booming economy, they are being asked once again to become vassels to the new Messiah… to take His lovely people of peace, whom the Chinese would be only to glad to greet with a club and use for organ donations.

I hope they are still as smart as they where 40 years ago.

I’ll bet china will take them for free , or maybe even some debt reduction.
the_nile on June 9, 2009 at 6:23 PM

Nope, bullets are expensive even China…

You just can’t make this stuff up.

/sigh

BardMan on June 9, 2009 at 6:11 PM

Well… you can. But when you told people about it, they would roll their eyes and tell you to quit being stupid.

Seriously, what’s to stop exiles (with the support of a larger organization) from leaving a sparsely populated and remote location. A phone call and a zodiac raft supplied from the outside and your in business. What am I missing?

If we are going to spend that kind of money, why not just buy them their own island, drill a well, give em some fishing rods and line, and let them go all lord of the flies on each other.