Backtracking

Editor,

In ABC news 7/5 we heard the former chief prosecutor Colonel Mason Davis say President Barack Obama "lacked backbone" when it came to follow through on his election promise to close down Guantanomo and shift the trial of the prisoners to the Federal Courts when "the critics went after him".

It is not the only case where Obama chose what was politically expedient over doing what was right.

Don't get me wrong here. I would rather Barack Obama then Mitt Romney for US President any day .

But that does not mean we should shy away from criticising Obama.

Intelligent and patriotic Americans do that . Colonel Davis is a good example.

Obama is not infallible.

We must not pretend he is.

Now some 10 years after their incarceration and a number of false starts Colonel Davis says he is "sceptical of a fair outcome" coming out of " a second rate judicial process" for the Guantanamo prisoners.

Yours sincerely,
Rajend Naidu
Sydney

ENDS

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