Obama has issued 4 executive orders. One states that Gitmo will be totally shut down within one year. Red cross will be allowed in, we'll see what they do with the prisoners. Another officially condemns torture, US military code must be followed by CIA. A third disavows the use of secret prison and rendition programs. This represents the reversal in policy I was hoping for, lets hope it keeps moving in that direction.
++George Mitchell, former Senate Majority Leader, was chosen as envoy to the Middle East.
++Richard Holbrook, former Ambassador to the UN, has been appointed envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan. Commission in 2000 Israel/Palestine. North Ireland negotions during Clinton
++Dennis Blair is in hearings to become director of national intelligence.
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He's also moving to curb the worst excesses of the banking sector -- see this in the NY Times:
Periodic fits of mass speculative insanity in the banking and investment sector, consisting of one part feeding frenzy and one part cold, mean-spirited greed, has been the direct and only significant cause of two major depressions in 80 years. The way these people do business has to be regulated closely, otherwise everybody's lives become very unpredictable.
Obama's doing again what Roosevelt had to do in the thirties. I wonder if we'll learn anything this time.
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