The Failures of Obama's Counter-Terrorism Strategy
Wikileaks has struck again, this time releasing the files of the terrorists being held at Gitmo. That, plus the story of the huge jailbreak in Afghanistan by Taliban prisoners in Kandahar, reveals the serious shortcomings in the Obama terrorism strategy. Contrary to myth, the detainees held at Gitmo are not innocent goatherders who all happened to be be going to the same wedding in Afghanistan in September 2001. And the files reveal that the United States has been releasing them, sending back onto the battlefield the toughest members of our enemy, with full knowledge of their intentions to attack us again. The only surprise in the recent study that showed that 25 percent of the repatriated Gitmo detainees have returned to the fight is that the number is so low -- it is sure to rise.
Congress won a victory for American national security by ending Obama's plans to close Gitmo, which only would have accelerated this process. And the Kandahar jailbreak shows that the Obama administration's solution -- holding al Qaeda fighters in other countries like Afghanistan rather than sending them to Gitmo -- will only allow more of our enemy to escape back to the fight.
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May '10
Re: The Failures of Obama's Counter-Terrorism Strategy
The Wikileaks document also show that the Bush Administration held people it knew to be innocent even after determining that they were mistakenly detained and posed no threat to the US. As the New York Times reports: "One Afghan, Mohammed Nasim, was sent to Guantanamo in May 2003 under the belief that he was a notorious Taliban military commander of the same last name. By March 2004, analysts had realized their error: 'It is assessed that the detainee is a poor farmer and his arrest was due to mistaken identity.' Yet, a review tribunal considered his case later that year as if he were the Taliban commander, and he was not sent home until April 2005 -- two years after he arrived at the prison."
Abhorrent.
The Wikileaks documents also reveal that one detainee "was leashed like a dog, sexually humiliated and forced to urinate on himself."
But if you close your eyes and repeat terrorism enough times all these indefensible abuses will be totally ignored as if they never even happened.
Sep '10
Re: The Failures of Obama's Counter-Terrorism Strategy
Medic.
Dec '10
Re: The Failures of Obama's Counter-Terrorism Strategy
In “The SecDef” podcast, Rumsfeld spoke of the years it took to scale down a squadron in Iceland whose mission was to search for Soviet submarines.
His disappointment is understandable, because, among the qualities of our federal government are its responsiveness, its agility, and its alacrity in shifting from a corps of honorably diligent, self-sacrificing public servants into loathsome paper-pushing procrastinators—then back again—all in accordance with the party affiliation of the president.
He should have waited to serve the administration of our historic first Islamic apostate president in order for his decisions to be implemented overnight with the efficiency Washington bureaucrats are deservedly rewarded for—but abuse with uncanny abandon under each Republican administration.
The more government workers there are, working under the administration of Democrats, the less we will have to fear Republicans oppressing the innocent. The more prosperous will be those denizens of our inner-cities placated into dependency, the better educated will be students in public schools, the more productive will be our public unions, the more appealing will be the rationing of energy, healthcare, and property, and the safer will be Mohammedan jihadists worldwide.
May '10
Re: The Failures of Obama's Counter-Terrorism Strategy
Charles Gordon: In “The SecDef” podcast, Rumsfeld spoke of the years it took to scale down a squadron in Iceland whose mission was to search for Soviet submarines.
His disappointment is understandable, because, among the qualities of our federal government are its responsiveness, its agility, and its alacrity in shifting from a corps of honorably diligent, self-sacrificing public servants into loathsome paper-pushing procrastinators—then back again—all in accordance with the party affiliation of the president.
He should have waited to serve the administration of our historic first Islamic apostate president in order for his decisions to be implemented overnight with the efficiency Washington bureaucrats are deservedly rewarded for—but abuse with uncanny abandon under each Republican administration.
The more government workers there are, working under the administration of Democrats, the less we will have to fear Republicans oppressing the innocent. The more prosperous will be those denizens of our inner-cities placated into dependency, the better educated will be students in public schools, the more productive will be our public unions, the more appealing will be the rationing of energy, healthcare, and property, and the safer will be Mohammedan jihadists worldwide.
:D :D :D