A Question Not Asked

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American Spectator:

Last night's presidential debate rightfully put the spotlight on President Obama's performance over the last four years as commander-in-chief. As informative as the debate was in certain respects, it regrettably did not include discussion of the President's views on what to do with the remaining terrorist detainees currently being held at Guantanamo Bay. Like his administration's spectacular mishandling of the Benghazi attack with which last night's debate opened, recent maneuvering by President Obama and his allies to possibly take another run at transferring terrorist detainees from Gitmo to the United States underscores a troubling reality of a President unable at best, and unwilling at worst, to acknowledge that we are a nation at war with Islamic terrorism.

 

As has been pointed out, transferring Gitmo detainees to U.S. soil could create an opening for their lawyers and sympathetic judges to give them criminal trials in federal court, complete with the range of defendant-friendly legal protections they provide. That Obama would attempt this highly unpopular transfer yet again is further symptomatic of his failure as a wartime Commander-in-Chief, shown this time through his unwillingness to use military detention -- a tool fundamental to the prosecution of a war -- despite clear authority from Congress to do so.