Obama is not making us safer

Treating Terrorists like Citizens and Citizens Like Terrorists

With the Detroit bomber we now have a clear pattern on how the obama administration deals with terrorists – try them in civilian courts with the full rights of American citizens.

When the young Mr. Abdulmutullab got off the plane in Detroit he had started talking to the FBI. He told them there were more like him – Yemeni trained suicide bombers – coming to America. But once we granted him Miranda rights, he got him lawyered up and clammed up. Does he know who the next terrorist attacker is, where he’ll strike, what weapons he will use? Now we’ll never know. Yet homeland Security Secretary Napolitano claimed the system worked.

The Attorney General has decided to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept 11 attacks, in public civilian courts – even though the evidence gathered against him might be thrown out of court, his testimony gives Al Qaeda a propaganda platform, and the trial presents a irresistible target for suicide bombers.
The Obama Administration remains committed to closing Gitmo and releasing some of the prisoners to Yemen, though previous Gitmo grads have returned to Al Qaeda, rather than join the Yemen Rotary Club.

And they’re so committed to political correctness that they refuse to use profiling to identify potential terrorists.
Contrast that to the way they’re treating three Navy Seals who captured an Iraqi terrorist. They’ve been court martialed for giving the terrorist a bloody lip.

President Obama believes many of the ills besetting America are the result of the Bush Administration policies and if we reverse course and apologize and are deferential enough, those ills will disappear. So far, it’s not worked. Al Qaeda’s spread to new countries, recruitment is up and they’re sending a new wave of suicide bombers to attack us.

The President is treating terrorists like citizens and citizens like terrorists. It’s not working – it’s not making us safer – and it’s time to stop.