Obama Falsely Says That Gitmo Was A "Rationale" For The Creation Of Al Qaeda In Yemen

The President's comment is both absurd and shameful. That the President of the United States would declare that there is a "rationale" for a new branch of Al Qaeda, our county's sworn enemy, is inexcusable. Firstly, there is not a shred of evidence that Gitmo was the impetus for the group’s formation in 2003. The first leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) was killed in June of that year. Not only is such an assertion based on no evidence, but it is completely backwards for the leader of the free world to claim that the actions of the United States in defending itself against Islamofascist terror is the "rationale" for the enemy to continue to plot against us. In what other conflict in our nation's history has the commander-in-chief announced to the American people and the world that the enemy, responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans civilians and soldiers, had a "rationale" for its actions? Former presidents, including Democrats, would never have imagined such reckless stupidity.

Perhaps the more disturbing fact is that Obama's comments demonstrate a complete ignorance of the nature of the enemy we face and the ideology of jihad that drives it. Obama needs to come to grips with the fact that the Islamoterrorists attacked us long before there ever was a single enemy combatant in Guantanamo Bay, before there was a war in Iraq or Afghanistan, and even before there was a George W. Bush in the White House. Guantanamo Bay was and is a response to Islamist terror, not the cause of it. It remains a vital part of military operations waged against the Islamist enemy, necessary to detaining and interrogating this enemy during this struggle. Yet Obama does not seem to understand this, as is most evident by the fact that the most important Islamoterrorists captured during this war are to get the trappings of a full civilian trial in New York City. Without the war declared against America by Osama Bin Laden and the rest of his jihadist ilk there would not be a Gitmo.

Obama is, but certainly should not be, providing talking points for the enemy to the Western and Islamic world. Yet that is exactly what he continues to do. Tweet