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OBAMA VS OSAMA: The Re-Match
Posted By Michael Widlanski On June 17, 2014 @ 3:53 am In Guest Columns | Comments
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President Barack Obama bragged about killing Osama Bin-Laden, saying Al-Qaeda was
virtually defeated, but maybe the gloating was out of place.
Osama Bin-Laden is dead, and Al-Qaeda is on the run, claimed Obama, but Osama Bin-
Laden has just reached back from the grave to laugh at Obama.
Recent events show Osamas recruits beat Obamas rhetoric. Arab-Islamic terrorists
captured three of the most important cities in IraqMosul, Tikrit and Fallujahextended
their power in Afghanistan and executed a major terror strike in Pakistan.
All this occurred just as President Obama released five Taliban terror chieftains, allies of
Osama Bin-Laden, in exchange for an American soldier held by the terrorists. So whos on
the run now?
Indeed, there are many more signs that the Obama Administrations victory claims were
inaccurate, premature and downright wrong:
Arab-Islamic terror has been on the rise worldwide for the last three years,
Democrat and Republican intelligence committee leaders agree, inflicting growing
numbers of casualties, as radical Islamist influence increases even inside Europe,
Asia, Africa and America itself, recruiting Western-born terrorists inside Western
jails and armies. The New York Times, CBS, NBC and CNN give scant coverage to
many terror events, but ask your local law police commandersfrom Brussels,
London and Paris to New York and Los Angelesif they think the terrorists are on
the run.
Arab-Islamic terrorists have grabbed large parts of Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria as
well as parts of the Sinai Peninsula next to Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia;
Americas well of human intelligence has dried up, thanks to the strong efforts of
Obama and his attorney general Eric Holder to cut off interrogations of captured
terrorists, preferring to release them back into those areas they first mauled with
their terror plans and acts.
From his first day in office, President Obama moved to close the Guantanamo Prison Base,
where the worst terrorists were kept, insisting the prison itself was a major recruitment
tool for of terror. From his first day in office, President Obama was dead wrong.
The major terror attacks on the U.S. on 9-11 in 2001, the terror assaults on U.S.
diplomats and soldiers in Africa, Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf in 1996, 1998 and
2000, and the first World Trade Center attack in 1993, all happened before even one
terrorist was incarcerated in Guantanamo.
Moreover, releasing terrorists from Guantanamo for humanitarian reasons has produced
inhumane results. At least thirty percent of those released returned to active terror. The
exact number is probably twice that high, but we do not have specific data on many of the
released terrorists.
Senate Democrats poked fun at a Pentagon study which showed this trend more than
two years ago, refusing to sign on to a 60-page Senate Intelligence Committee study that
showed further signs of terrorist recidivismsomething which Israel itself has discovered
from its own unfortunate deals with terror groups. Israel found the recidivism rate for
terrorists released in various deals is between 30 and 70 percent.
The Bush Administration was pressed by Democratic politicians like Senators Obama, Carl
Levin of Michigan, John Kerry of Massachusetts, and Patrick Leahy of Vermont and
by alarmist media reports by The New York Times, Newsweek Magazine, the Associated
Press (which turned out to be exaggerated or false).
President Bush began releasing Gitmo detainees, but he was still called inhumane. When
Obama took over Guantanamo, there was less talk of presidential inhumanity and less
pressure for terrorists release, but Obama released terrorists anyway.
The media and the Democratsand isolationists like Ron Paulhinted that America had
brought terror on itself, that it could appease terrorists if it spoke to them nicely, gave
them Islamically-sanctioned halal food, lots of Qurans in their cells, and civilian trials in
New York. It did not work.
It was like a child covering his or her head with a blanket to fight off nightmares, but the
problem is that terror is a reality, not a bad dream.
But dreams die hard for someone with ideological blinders, and President Obama wants to
fight terrorists by saying that there is no Arab-Islamic terror, that there is no waronly
man-made incidents by Al-Qaeda or by lone gunmen such as Fort Hood or crazies
like the Detroit bomber.
If one does not say war, Obama believes, there is no war. If one avoids saying terror,
then there is no terror according to President Obama, then-Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton and UN Ambassador-now-National Security Advisor Susan Rice.
Mr. Obama fights terror symbolically and magicallyby ignoring it. He thinks if he pretends
terror has disappeared, then it will disappear. His appointees do the same. Hillary Clinton
and Susan Rice pretend a murderous assault on a US consulate in Libya on the 9-11
anniversary was the result of a nasty anti-Islamic video.
Pretending that Arab-Islamic terror does not exist is exactly how 9-11 happened.
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