Obama criticizes some Guantanamo release decisions. On the one hand President Obama claims that the Bush administration released some people from Guantanamo who then rejoined terrorist groups. He complained that "U.S. officials have not always been effective in determining which prisoners will be a danger once they are let go."
On the other hand, Obama said that "the Bush administration's policy of holding detainees for years on end with no trials is 'unsustainable,' and has only fueled anti-American sentiments." According to the report, he also "he also disputes former Vice President Dick Cheney's claim that plans to close Guantanamo will make America less safe."
Obama has President Bush coming and going. First, he was an idiot for releasing prisoners from Guantanamo who joined the terrorists. But he would have been an idiot for keeping them in Guantanamo because that would have increased hatred of America.
Yet, Obama can release all of the remaining terrorists from Guantanamo and that will not make America less safe. These seem to be mutually exclusive ideas that cannot all be held at the same time, but Obama firmly holds to all of them and expects Americans to do the same.
Was Bush in error for releasing terrorists or for holding them in Guantanamo? If Bush was wrong in releasing some of the terrorists, how are we not less safe if we release all of them?
I'm sorry, President Obama. You can no longer vote "present" or take all sides of an issue as you did in the campaign. Being President of the United States of America means that you have to take a decision and accept responsibility for the consequences. Do you release the terrorists or hold them? If you release them, you can be certain that a substantial number will rejoin the jihad.
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