How Obama Operates

Obama summoned retired military leaders to meet with him today to "get their input" on the Iraq withdraw plan. Those summoned were "political generals" who agreed with every liberal initiative that had nothing to do with producing an efficient military force in the recent past. Women in combat-great. Gays openly in the ranks-terrific. Get rid of the "tail hook" officers-hurrah. They agree with a precipitous exit, hasty and exposing forces on the ground to unnecessary risks or they would not have been invited in the first place. These officers are the "amen choir" brought in to give cover to the political decision Obama had already made. There is no other voice or counter-argument being posited, only window dressing with plenty of brass to insulate Obama when things go badly. He can claim when our defeat is sealed in a war that was just about won under Bush/Petraeus that he was only following the advice of wise and experienced general officers. Another sage move by Obo is to close the Guantanamo Bay terrorist detention facility which to the international left and Muslims, neither of which have our best interests at heart, is a symbol of American human rights abuses. Those held there include the alleged twentieth 9/11 hijacker (who has in fact bragged in court of his participation in the September 11 plot). This is a man who would gladly have cut a flight attendant's throat with a box cutter and was eager to fly passenger-laden commercial jets into packed buildings. He is not the only jihadist detained there who would love to kill a crowd of innocent Americans, even infants. These are monsters who needed to be monitored every second of every day by hard men and whose plans had to be ferreted out by interrogators using any means necessary. Other attacks were in the pipeline after September 11, and they were thwarted only because the conspirators were broken by techniques holier than thou Obama has pledged to eliminate. Can you imagine the anguish of the families of 9/11 victims now that Obama has shown he believes the Constitutional rights of foreign enemy combatants (a non sequitur, as those fighting out of mufti were never conferred any Geneva Convention protections or access to American courts in any conflict before) are more important than the American lives already lost or the pain that families in the future will have to endure because of this calculated lapse in our national defense, this willful self-imposed breech in the armour of the homeland?