Analysis: Abrupt end to 'war on terror'
Obama signals that America's reach in battling enemies will not be
limitless
ANALYSIS
By Dana Priest
The Washington Post
updated 5:13
a.m. ET, Fri., Jan. 23, 2009
WASHINGTON - President Obama yesterday eliminated the most controversial tools employed by his predecessor against terrorism suspects. With the stroke of his pen, he effectively declared an end to the "war on terror," as President George W. Bush had defined it, signaling to the world that the reach of the U.S. government in battling its enemies will not be limitless.
While Obama says he has no plans to diminish counterterrorism operations abroad, the notion that a president can circumvent long-standing U.S. laws simply by declaring war was halted by executive order in the Oval Office.
Key components of the secret structure developed under Bush are being swept away: The military's Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, facility, where the rights of habeas corpus and due process had been denied detainees, will close, and the CIA is now prohibited from maintaining its own overseas prisons. And in a broad swipe at the Bush administration's lawyers, Obama nullified every legal order and opinion on interrogations issued by any lawyer in the executive branch after Sept. 11,
2001.
It was a swift and sudden end to an era that was slowly drawing to a close
anyway, as public sentiment grew against perceived abuses of government power. The feisty debate over the tactics employed against al-Qaeda began more than six years ago as whispers among confidants with access to the nation's most tightly held secrets. At the time, there was consensus in Congress and among the public that the United States would be attacked again and that government should do
what was necessary to thwart the threat.
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This man will get us all killed
8 comments:
I've always had a problem with "The War on Terrorism." Terrorism is a method, not an ideology.
Now, what we need is a declaration of "The War on Islamofascism" or a similar term which specifies the ideology that we will not allow to continue.
It certainly illuminates the extent of the ignorance about Jihad and Islam amongst not only the public at large but those whose task it is to uncover the truth and inform that public. I don't care who their professors of Middle East Studies were, what their colleagues think, how much Religion of Peace kumbaya they've absorbed, if they are not deaf, dumb and blind they have seen the same riots and murderous attacks, heard the same chants of Behead Those Who Insult Islam, have the same access to information as we do, and they have forfeited their status as journalists by refusing to report the what, where, when, how and why of the Jihad.
Yes, this man is liable to get us all killed. And the MSM will be right there telling us it isn't really happening, it's just our imagination and prejudice.
Spit.
Priest says, "The military's Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, facility, where the rights of habeas corpus and due process had been denied detainees." The detainees at Gitmo have no right to habeas corpus so they cannot be denied that right. It makes as much sense to say I have been denied my right to three rainbows and two unicorns a day.
Well, that is good news.
We all better hope to God the Obamenon is right.
I didn't get no unicorns or rainbows :<(
Did al-Qaeda get the memo?
Think not.
Damn! I want my rainbow and unicorns this minute! [stomps foot]
Nuh uh, AoW. Uncle Barry-O says we hast to share da raimbows and unicorns and play nice and be nice to the bullies or he'll take dem away from us.
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