Thursday, January 7, 2010

Obama on Gitmo: Another 'Make No Mistake' Moment

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WHEN PRESIDENT OBAMA PREFACES HIS REMARKS WITH his now infamous and familiar Make no mistake! phrase, I've learned he's telling us in no uncertain terms deep stuff about the governing principles of his soul. Make no mistake! literally means he's really, really intent on telling us he's governing by a landslide of popular opinion to Make no mistake! Translated: he's here to clean up, straighten out, set the record straight on all the filthy, rotten mistakes made by his predecessors, especially HIS PREDECESSOR who is the most pathetic excuse for a predecessor this country and the world has ever seen. A clear example came on Tuesday, so let's review:

Did he make himself clear? But what are we to make of his most recent Make no mistake! moment now reverberating like sugarplums in our heads? Some strong possibilities:

1. Putting terrorist detainees in Gitmo for any reason was a Big Mistake! The Bush administration is and will remain guilty. Closing Gitmo is not a mistake; it's good and proper penance.

2. Imprisoning terrorists in Gitmo during the Bush years gave al Qaeda good and quite understandable justification for starting terrorism recruitment and training in Yemen. No wonder all those Gitmo releasees went back to Yemen: they had been treated like, well, terrorist prisoners at Gitmo and that was a Big Mistake!

3. No matter what it takes to redeem ourselves from our past sins, including Gitmo, so that terrorists will know we're really, really trying hard to make them like us, we're going to go the distance for making restitution to them. Our national security may have to come second in some cases.

4. The hard-hearted ways the Bush administration dealt with terrorism caused al Qaeda to grow angry and frustrated and therefore they are not threatening us with growing acts of terrorism like the failed Undie Bomber on Christmas Day, and the massacre at Ft. Hood. These attacks are just justifiable tit for tat.

If you're not yet clear on these Obama Make no mistake! moments, then stick around. I'm sure we'll be tutored more in the weeks and months ahead, especially as the KSM trial begins in Manhattan. You know, when our enemies are read their Miranda rights like they are U.S. citizens and start their own Make no mistake! diatribes to the frothing press, grandstanding against the mean Bush adminstration---who kept us safe from further attacks after 9/11---and how they were persecuted by us evil Americans. I can hardly wait.

Ed Morrissey has more at HotAir.

4 comments:

gcotharn said...

This also raised my hackles - especially this: "[Gitmo] was an explicit rational for the formation of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula." Weak. That logic is so weak that I want to just punch Barack in the nose and move on. Barack is a) beyond help, and b) on the other side. His problem, the more I think about it, is that he's never been punched in the nose. Rather, he has been coddled - as the great beautiful multiculti hope - at every step of the way. And this: "[Gitmo] was an explicit rational for the formation of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula", is the inevitable end result of a LIFETIME of being coddled, of never being truly challenged, of never being punched in the nose and needing to desperately scrap. Barack has never known a desperate moment. When challenged by a potentially desperate situation, he's always been able to step down a level - and there find comforting, unquestioning, politically correct/white guilt arms eager to embrace him. I've never seen a man so weak; a man who is so much bluster and so little core; a man who is such cotton candy.

Webutante said...

May I have a word with you Greg?
Next time, please, please, pleeeese don't hold back. Tell us what you really think....

HA! So well said!

I fear you are right and our country is and will suffer greatly as a result of this hubris.

fraydna52 said...

Agreed. I keep asking these questions:

1) Has he ever been allowed to fail?
2) Has he ever experienced suffering in his life?

Failure and suffering have the potential to lead to growth and wisdom, but he exhibits neither.

According to Agence France-Presse:

"Al-Qaeda said the suicide bombing of a CIA base in Afghanistan that killed seven agents last week was revenge for the deaths of top militants in US drone strikes in Pakistan, the US monitoring group SITE said on Thursday."

Drone strikes, not Gitmo.

Webutante said...

Yes, being 'smart' and charming doesn't mean being 'wise'...thank you for your comments.

And also thank you, fraydna, for your kindness on the other post....and helping to keep the discussion on a higher plane. Prayers are needed there... nuff said.