So Easily We Forget

Since Obama came to office, there has been much discussion about the detainees at Guantanamo Bay and their rights. From the left's viewpoint, these people are being totally deprived of their rights for criminal justice. But, what about our rights. Because of the events of 9/11, each and everyone of us is unable to live as freely as we did before that date. You know this to be true every time you or I try to board an an airplane. Just look at the fear that was created in New York City, nearly eight years after 9/11, when Air Force One, flanked by two F-16's, flew over the Statue Of Liberty for an Obama Administration authorized photo op.

Al Qaeda existed long before Guantanamo Bay and it will exist long after it is closed. The concept that Guantanamo is a reason that would-be terrorists are joining up with Al Qaeda is like saying that someone joined the Army because they liked those tan jump boots. I would think that the reasons for hooking up with Al Qaeda are quite a bit deeper than that prison in Cuba housing a handful of people. In his speech on National Security, Obama made the statement that Guantanamo Bay was probably responsible for recruiting more terrorists than it was created to house. That may sound good in a speech but it is only his opinion with no real facts to support it and he knows it. It is not provable. It is no more provable than his pledge to save or create 2 to 2.5 million jobs with the passage of his Stimulus Package. At its peak, Guantanamo only held 780 detainees. Today, it is estimated that there is something between .7 and 1.1 billion Muslims in the world. It is also estimated that as much of 7% of that number, about 91 million, are radicalized. If true, an extra 800 or more terrorists being created by Guantanamo is absolutely an insignificant number. Anyway, no self respecting terrorist would ever want to wind up in a prison facility like Guantanamo and be deprived of sacrificing themselves in some extremely violent act. Certainly, if Guantanamo is the only reason people become terrorists, we should see a mass exodus from Al Qaeda as soon as Gitmo is closed. But, my guess is that won't happen. Anyway, how do we know Guantanamo was the reason that anyone joined Al Qaeda? Did Rasmussen or Gallup call up 1500 Al Qaeda terrorists one night and take a poll and ask that question? The left loves to use this "recruiting" argument for closing Gitmo because they like to point back to the story about a Koran being flushed down the toilet as part of the Guantanamo interrogation of terrorists. However, the left seems to ignore the fact that this story was proven false (See Full Story). But those on the left, as many of them always do, love to proliferate a lie for political gain.

Somehow, with Obama now in office, the Democrats are attempting to erase the history and anxiety after 9/11. They seem to want to ignore the reasons behind everything that was done in the short time following 9/11. The people of this country and our Congress demanded that the Bush Administration make us safe from another attack. Gitmo and harsh interrogation resulted out of those demands and out of that fear. Let's not forget that most of these detainees weren't on some kind of Sandals or Beaches vacation; laying out in the sun in their monokinis while sucking down pina coladas. Rather, they came their from other countries to join in the Jihad; to kill Americans and their allies; and, to die to reap the rewards of Allah. These people are so distasteful to their own citizens that their own home countries won't take them so that we can close Gitmo. To this date, the oh-so-smart Obama has been only able to convince two countries to take two of these detainees.

I hear other Democrats and Obama's Defense Secretary, Robert Gates, say that Guantanamo presents a bad image to the rest of the world. If it has a bad image, that's because our left-wing press in "this country" spent the last 5 years demonizing Gitmo as a way to destroy George Bush and his Administration. Papers like the New York Times and the Washington Post and magazines like Time and Newsweek (owned by the Washington Post) spared no ink in trashing Gitmo as a means to get Democrats back in office. As mentioned previously, the left-wing Newsweek caused international riots and deaths as a result of their false story about a Koran being flushed down a toilet. All throughout the Bush Administration, the left-wing, Fifth Estate worked feverishly to undermine our National Security so that they could dethrone Bush and the Republicans and install their own, left-wing, ideology.

But, so easily do the national media and the Democrats forget. If we ever get attacked again, there will be all these people on the left who will once again squirm out of the fact that it was their policies -- their softness on national security --- that put us at more risk for that attack than any harboring of less than 800 prisoners at Guantanamo ever did. This is exactly what happened because of the emasculation of this nation's security; starting with the Democrat's Church commission and ending with the softness of the Clinton Administration to take out Bin Laden before the 9/11 events unfolded.

Lastly, the national media seemed not to connect the dots on the 4 terrorists that were caught this week before they were able to blow up synagogues and take down a military jet with a stinger missile. These people were Americans that converted to Islam and were radicalized while in prison. Radical Islam is like a virus and it strikes those who harbor ills against this country; like the majority of inmates in our prisons that operate outside of normal society. If we do close Gitmo and move those detainees into U.S. prisons, it isn't their escape we need worry about. It is the radicalization of the disenchanted in those prisons that should concern us. That's the real risk that the mainstream media and the Democrats are too ignorant to understand. Furthermore, it is highly possible that some activist liberal judge or judges will ultimately rule to release these people and, because their home countries won't take them back, they will wind up on our own city streets. What then? To say that won't happen is pure idiocy. All you have to do is look at the number of harden criminals, pedophiles, and rapists that liberal judges have sent back onto our streets with very disastrous results.