Yes, but Guantanamo should have been closed (Obama promised to do this! he didn't do it!) and the people who masterminded it should have been thrown in jail. But, no, we had to "look forward" and not punish the war criminals in our immediate past.
He could have and should have done more, but the blame for that one mostly falls on Congress (at the time firmly controlled by Democrats) blocking said EO
True, but important to know that Republican congress stopped every attempt he made. He still got the number of prisoners down from 242 to 55.
The 2009-2011 Congress was Democratically controlled.
> Democrats fail to do something
> it's because they universally wanted to but were obstructed.
Doesn't really work in a post-Trump era. They could've done whatever they wanted to, if they were willing to try.