Obama’s National Security Policy Reduced to a Shrug
I think this, from Debra Burlingame, is a very appropriate summation of the Obama administration’s thoughts on the war we’re fighting against the Islamists.
Many family members pressed for Guantanamo to remain open and for the military commissions to go forward. Mr. Obama allowed that the detention center had been unfairly confused with Abu Ghraib, but when asked why he wouldn’t rehabilitate its image rather than shut it down, he silently shrugged. Next question.
He couldn’t very well tell them that the only reason he wants to shut down Gitmo is to appease the suicidal anti-war left who dumped lots of cash and man-hours into his campaign and whose money and time he’ll need again to win in 2012.
The rest of us, well, all we get is an impotent shrug.
Other Posts of Interest:
- Why Guantanamo Bay Won’t Close Next Year.
- SCOTUS Says that You and the Islamists are All the Same to the Constitution
- The Inauguration Day Blockade
Category: Fighting the Islamists, President Barack Obama, The Long War Here At Home
I was going to tweet exactly that phrase in that op-ed. Says it all.
seedubya – I think that says a lot more even than the writer intended.
Cheesecake – Politics is an ugly business when you're campaigning all the time.
"Rehabilitate its image"
What, Gitmo? Its a posh prison that treats detainees to far better conditions than some slums inhabited by working Americans. We poured water on their faces a few times. Sometimes, we grabbed them by the collar and shook them a bit.
I think by the time he shrugged that the story was worn out.
If you hadn't heard the reasons by then you weren't listening.
I understand having a difference of opinion over GITMO but I do not get the point that his position was unknown. The many pro and con arguments had been beaten to death.
Who made the point that his position was unknown? The point I made, pretty specifically, if that he knew Gitmo was not what the left made it out to be, but that he wasn't willing to fight them to defend the truth.