There was plenty of puffery on January 20th but Obama has wasted no time in betraying America's National Security interests. A dangerous man is in the White House, placing all Americans in peril with his naiveté and radical left-wing agenda.
Our Enemy Is Cheering
The sight of President Obama yesterday proudly signing an executive order to close the Guantanamo Bay terrorist detention facility and ordering U.S. officials to end coercive interrogation tactics of suspected jihadists was infuriating. It is really hard for me to get inside the head of a president and commander-in-chief who decides in his first hours in office to make life easier, not for his fellow citizens, but for those who want to kill us. But his action should certainly be a clarifying moment for those who have deluded themselves into believing he will govern from the center. The man now in the Oval Office is a MoveOn.org / ACLU leftist, and we are already less safe than we were one week ago.
Remember how candidate Obama constantly bragged during the campaign that he liked to hear a lot of view points from smart people before he made his decisions? This morning we found out that he got that wise counsel. CIA Director Michael Hayden and outgoing Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell begged the president not to sign that executive order. They told him that just the fear of harsh interrogations often intimidated jihadist detainees into talking. And I’m sure they reminded him that when these thugs talk, LIVES ARE SAVED.
President Obama ignored their advice. Our “community organizer” in chief apparently concluded that he knew better. And he certainly understood that he better not cross the radical Left groups, like Code Pink and ANSWER, which would have been infuriated if he had put our national security needs first.
At the signing of the executive order, President Obama admitted he didn’t know where the prisoners at GITMO would go once the facility is closed. (Shouldn’t we have figured that out first?) But maybe there is a solution after all. Marine-basher Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) urged the president to send the thugs to his western Pennsylvania district. I’m sure his constituents are thrilled.
Releasing the prisoners and sending them home could be a major problem too. We learned this morning that another former GITMO prisoner, Said Ali al-Shihri, released some time ago due to pressure from the Left, has reemerged in the news. He is now the new second in command of Al Qaeda in Yemen. People will die because the American Left was more worried about his “rights” than the safety of your family. Words fail me.
House Republicans promptly introduced a bill to ban GITMO detainees from U.S. soil. “Closing Guantanamo Bay presents a clear and present danger to all Americans,” said Rep. Lamar Smith, the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee. Rep. Smith pointed out that leftwing judges could very well order the prisoners released here in the U.S. You can count on it happening. We will do everything we can to get that legislation passed.
Gary Bauer
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