Obama – The GITMO Mistake

The Christmas Surprise Bomber is a looming reminder of the patience, persistence and constant effort of the the terrorists to kill Americans – any  Americans, any where, any time.

It took the President a long time to address the incident, then, done so poorly, he continues to rush to the television cameras to try to get it right.  He has trouble with sounding sincere and has a heck of a time with the facts.

Regardless of the bombing attempt on his watch, Obama seems unable to see past his pathological hatred of anything Bush did, to do what is right for the country.  Closing GITMO is unquestionably one of the biggest failures in his agenda.

We have built a state of the art prison facility in Guantanamo Bay.  It is isolated and controlled and efficient.  It is guarded by highly trained members of our military.  It secures our captured terrorists.  It provides a place for information gathering.  And, despite attempts to lie about it, there has not been an incident of abuse to anyone there.  Yet, the Obama mantra is that it is a recruiting tool for Al Qaeda… really?  Was GITMO there when Al Qaeda stole four airliners and crashed them into the Pentagon, a field in Pennsylvania and the twin World Trade Towers?  Obviously, they do not need GITMO for motivation.

Part of Obama’s attempt to close GITMO is to ‘relocate’ the prisoners.  As President Bush did before him, Obama is sending prisoners to other countries.  President Bush saw the folly in this when those relocated ended up ‘escaping’ or ‘being paroled’, yet today, Obama is planning to return a large number to Yemen where previous prisoners returned are running Al Qaeda in Yemen – our newest war front.

It is evident that Obama’s concern is not for the safety and security of America.  His concern is for ripping out the upholstery of American society and replacing it with a modern version of his vision of what America should be.  These terrorists are just an inconvenience to him.  And, that is a dangerous position to put America in.