"Our common humanity should be self-evident" ... Camp Delta military-run prison at the Guantanamo Bay US naval base. Photograph: Brennan Linsley/PAFrom The New York Times:
WASHINGTON — After rebuffing the Bush administration on a number of fronts, European governments are signaling that they may be more willing to engage with the incoming Obama administration on a variety of stalled issues, including taking in prisoners from the Guantánamo Bay detention center and strengthening sanctions against Iran.
But it may not be all honeymoon: European diplomats say they will push President-elect Barack Obama to soothe Russian anger over plans to establish missile defense bases in Europe. And American officials say that the Obama administration is certain to press countries to fulfill, or even increase, pledges for personnel and equipment for the NATO mission in Afghanistan, long a point of tension among allies.
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My Comment: I am not sure that they are "willing" to help. Some of the men who are locked up in Guantanamo are not pleasant people at all .... and Europe has a long history of knowing what such men can do.