Post by Daniel on Jan 9, 2016 13:41:31 GMT -5
President Obama: WAR? WHAT WAR? LET’S CLOSE GITMO
By Skip Ash
Will President Obama ever get it? Will he ever grasp that a weak America invites attacks? Will he ever understand that apologizing to Islamist jihadis for past American successes is no substitute for resolute strength and that weakness breeds nothing but contempt in the Muslim world? Will he ever understand that “negotiating” with the world’s largest sponsor of state terrorism and agreeing unilaterally to carry out terms of a “treaty” that our negotiating “partner” not only doesn’t intend to keep but has publicly refused to sign is sheer idiocy? You’d think so by now. After all, he’s been President of the United States for seven years, but all evidence seems to suggest the polar opposite.
So let’s set President Obama straight. Mr. President, your desire for a lasting legacy does not trump your constitutional responsibilities to protect the American people in time of war. And, we are at war, whether the President wants to admit it or not. Our enemies have made sure of that. Al Qaeda and ISIS (the Islamic State) have made sure of that. They are hiding nothing. Yet, this Administration continues to intentionally blind itself to reality.
I, for one, am getting really tired of this Administration’s incessant argument that holding terrorists at Guantanamo Bay (Gitmo) serves as a recruiting tool for our enemies. Nonsense! Let’s look at the facts. There was no Gitmo when the Khobar towers were bombed, when the USS Cole was attacked, when the two U.S. embassies in East Africa were bombed, when the World Trade Center Towers were attacked the first time or on that tragic day of 9/11 in 2001.
Gitmo is not the cause of our troubles. Radical Islamic jihadis had America in their crosshairs long before anyone in the United States had ever entertained a single thought of detaining anyone at Gitmo.
Our beliefs, our values, our global influence are the cause of jihadist rage.
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aclj.org/national-security/president-obama-war-what-war-lets-close-gitmo
By Skip Ash
Will President Obama ever get it? Will he ever grasp that a weak America invites attacks? Will he ever understand that apologizing to Islamist jihadis for past American successes is no substitute for resolute strength and that weakness breeds nothing but contempt in the Muslim world? Will he ever understand that “negotiating” with the world’s largest sponsor of state terrorism and agreeing unilaterally to carry out terms of a “treaty” that our negotiating “partner” not only doesn’t intend to keep but has publicly refused to sign is sheer idiocy? You’d think so by now. After all, he’s been President of the United States for seven years, but all evidence seems to suggest the polar opposite.
So let’s set President Obama straight. Mr. President, your desire for a lasting legacy does not trump your constitutional responsibilities to protect the American people in time of war. And, we are at war, whether the President wants to admit it or not. Our enemies have made sure of that. Al Qaeda and ISIS (the Islamic State) have made sure of that. They are hiding nothing. Yet, this Administration continues to intentionally blind itself to reality.
I, for one, am getting really tired of this Administration’s incessant argument that holding terrorists at Guantanamo Bay (Gitmo) serves as a recruiting tool for our enemies. Nonsense! Let’s look at the facts. There was no Gitmo when the Khobar towers were bombed, when the USS Cole was attacked, when the two U.S. embassies in East Africa were bombed, when the World Trade Center Towers were attacked the first time or on that tragic day of 9/11 in 2001.
Gitmo is not the cause of our troubles. Radical Islamic jihadis had America in their crosshairs long before anyone in the United States had ever entertained a single thought of detaining anyone at Gitmo.
Our beliefs, our values, our global influence are the cause of jihadist rage.
continue reading
aclj.org/national-security/president-obama-war-what-war-lets-close-gitmo
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