By Mr. Curmudgeon
President Obama, in a grand gesture designed to demonstrate his administration’s policy of “mutual respect” for dysfunctional Islamic regimes, entered into partnership with Yemen in an effort to make good his promise to close the terrorist prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The motive behind the closing is to appease those who claim the prison serves as a recruiting tool for Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda’s attempted Christmas Day attack in Detroit has put the transfer of Gitmo’s Yemeni jihadists to their home country on hold. Yemen's "catch and release" policy for Al Qaeda's terrorists has proved an embarrassment for Obama due the the Detroit bomber's ties to Al Qaeda in Yemen.
Recently, with U.S. assistance, the Yemeni government launched raids against Al Qaeda elements in that country, which included U.S. airstrikes on suspected terrorist hideouts that killed an estimated 30 militants. Though unconfirmed, it is believed the chief target of the attacks was Anwar al-Awlaki, the American born Islamic cleric who inspires anti-American hatred among his followers around the world. It’s believed al-Awlaki’s sermons motivated Major Hasan’s murderous rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, and was an inspiration to the failed bomber on Northwest Flight 253. According to the New York Times:
“…a group called Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which operates in Yemen and was the target of a recent airstrike facilitated by the United States, asserted that it had sponsored the attempted attack in retaliation.”
So, let me see if I have this right. The president says Gitmo must be closed because it serves as an Al Qaeda recruiting tool, but his expansion of the war on terror to Yemen seems to have inspired an attempted Al Qaeda attack on America.
The jury seems to be in on Obama’s “hope and change.” Here at home, it is poised to reverse the Constitutional arrangement that government serves by consent of the governed into a perverse system where the governed exist, literally, by consent of government health care death panels. Meanwhile, overseas, “hope and change” appears to have replaced Gitmo as a recruiting tool for Al Qaeda.
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