The release of more detainees from Guantanamo by president Obama provides a clear view of just where that facility and its residents are going. The numbers of detainees at Gitmo are now down to just 20% of the maximum number who were held there during the Bush administration.
Many in Washington think it is a good thing that Gitmo is losing detainees. After all, Obama told us before he was elected in 2008 that Gitmo was a major recruiting tool for al Qaeda terrorists. Indeed, on taking office, Obama ordered Gitmo to be closed by the end of 2009. Of course, Gitmo is still open and no one ever talks anymore about it being a recruiting tool for the terror groups. Instead, the common sense truth that Gitmo is simply a necessary place to hold dangerous terrorists while they are still attempting to kill and maim Americans. In Washington, however, that reality is lost on many of the true believers on the left.
For the last six years, Obama has been limited by the political reality of the public's view of Guantanamo. Obama did not really try to close the base in the face of overwhelming support of keeping it open. Now, however, things have changed. After November's midterm elections, Obama will never again have to worry about the election results. He is in his final two years. As a result, he has decided to close Gitmo by the only means left to him: he is simply releasing the detainees no matter what the danger that they will again take up arms against Americans. Since the election, the pace of releases has been quickening.
Perhaps the clearest indication of Obama's haste to get rid of the detainees was the release a few weeks ago of six men to Uruguay. When the release occurred, Obama's spokesman said that the men were being transferred to detention in Uruguay. Two days after the transfer, the president of Uruguay announced that the six men who had been the "victims of a heinous kidnapping" by the USA were being taken in for humanitarian reasons. All six were sent to hospitals for assessment, and they are no longer in prison. The prisoner transfer became the prisoner release. There is no question that the people from the administration who negotiated the arrangements with Uruguay knew what was coming. That means that the American people were again told lies by the pathological liars of the Obama administration and then the security of the nation was put at risk by releasing these six men.
It is going to be a long two years until Obama is gone.
Many in Washington think it is a good thing that Gitmo is losing detainees. After all, Obama told us before he was elected in 2008 that Gitmo was a major recruiting tool for al Qaeda terrorists. Indeed, on taking office, Obama ordered Gitmo to be closed by the end of 2009. Of course, Gitmo is still open and no one ever talks anymore about it being a recruiting tool for the terror groups. Instead, the common sense truth that Gitmo is simply a necessary place to hold dangerous terrorists while they are still attempting to kill and maim Americans. In Washington, however, that reality is lost on many of the true believers on the left.
For the last six years, Obama has been limited by the political reality of the public's view of Guantanamo. Obama did not really try to close the base in the face of overwhelming support of keeping it open. Now, however, things have changed. After November's midterm elections, Obama will never again have to worry about the election results. He is in his final two years. As a result, he has decided to close Gitmo by the only means left to him: he is simply releasing the detainees no matter what the danger that they will again take up arms against Americans. Since the election, the pace of releases has been quickening.
Perhaps the clearest indication of Obama's haste to get rid of the detainees was the release a few weeks ago of six men to Uruguay. When the release occurred, Obama's spokesman said that the men were being transferred to detention in Uruguay. Two days after the transfer, the president of Uruguay announced that the six men who had been the "victims of a heinous kidnapping" by the USA were being taken in for humanitarian reasons. All six were sent to hospitals for assessment, and they are no longer in prison. The prisoner transfer became the prisoner release. There is no question that the people from the administration who negotiated the arrangements with Uruguay knew what was coming. That means that the American people were again told lies by the pathological liars of the Obama administration and then the security of the nation was put at risk by releasing these six men.
It is going to be a long two years until Obama is gone.
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