President Obama's decision to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center within 12 months is not a surprise. It was an often-repeated campaign pronouncement. Senator McCain also favored the closing of the detention center, as did President Bush in recent months.
Closing Guantanamo is by itself not a detractor to our national security. What will be decisive is what will happen and where will we send the 270 enemy combatants - terrorists - that are presently held in Guantanamo. There is already clear evidence of the high recidivism rate among released Guantanamo detainees. We have recaptured 61 of these terrorists in various stages of their return to killing innocents. How many are out there that we have not recaptured is a logical question.
Left wingers would like us to treat these dangerous elements as if they have been charged with a misdemeanor of sorts, not too different from being a litter-bug or making an illegal U-turn. Make no mistake about it, these are terrorists and they aim to inflict lethal damage upon us if given the opportunity.
So, where do we send them 12 months from now? If tried in the U.S. and not convicted we can choose to deport them. However, if their home country doesn't welcome back their beloved citizens then they get to stay right here in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Stay here? Where? Here are some ideas to kick around. We can send them to Hyde Park in Chicago, then they can just be "pals from the neighborhood". A few can even stay at Weatherman terrorist Bill Ayers comfy abode and spend quality time competing with Billy in the "I Hate America Most" sweepstakes.
Some can be routed to Beverly Hills so that leftist Hollywood types can "feel the sorrow of their awful gitmo experience".
We can send a couple to MSNBC so that Keith Olbermann can have them on his nightly propaganda hour whoopin' it up with some Bush-bashing and so that Chris Matthews can feel more tingles up his leg or wherever tingles most suit him these days.
If any still need a place to call home, there is always the upper west side of Manhattan -- they really hate Bush there for detaining these victims. I'm sure they would be welcomed with open arms. We can always see if France, Germany, or Spain will take them. After all, they all applaud the Obama overtures to have America return to moral leadership. They will accept a few of these adorable creatures, don't you think?
The sad irony is that these 270 hardened killers of innocents are being far better treated than the thousands of political prisoners held for a far longer period of time next door in Cuba. Yet the left hates Bush and worships Castro. It make perfect sense to me.
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