Poor Stalin and Hitler must be feeling left out. No reports (yet) that their images are hanging on any White House Christmas trees. But there are a lot of trees in "the people's house," and who knows what might turn up next?
Another quick item before undone Christmas preparations take over my mind:
Andy McCarthy: We Interrupt this Socialization of Medicine to Bring You an Abdication of Our National Defense . . .
Read the whole thing.The original 800 included some marginal figures (to hear the Left tell it, all the detainees were shepherds indiscriminately swept up by the Northern Alliance to win bribe money from the CIA). But now we are down to a much smaller core group — detainees whose cases we've had years to study and whom we've held despite enormous pressure to release them. These are the worst of the worst. We have an absolute right under the laws of war to hold them, and when one of them gets sprung it's cause for grave concern.
But the release announced this past weekend is just appalling. The twelve detainees have been transferred to: Yemen, an al-Qaeda hotbed whose government makes common cause with jihadists (and has a history of allowing them to escape — or of releasing them outright); Afghanistan, which is so ungovernable and rife with jihadism that we're surging thousands of troops there (troops the jihadists are targeting); and Somaliland, which is not even a country, and which offers an easy entree into Somalia, a failed state and al-Qaeda safe-haven. At least one of the released terrorists, a Somali named Abdullahi Sudi Arale (aka Ismail Mahmoud Muhammad), was released notwithstanding the military's designation of him as a "high-value detainee" (a label that has been applied only to top-tier terrorist prisoners — and one that fits in this case given Arale's status as a point of contact between al-Qaeda's satellites in East Africa and Pakistan).
Linked at Michelle Malkin (buzzworthy)
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Setting aside my confusion as to what Chairman Mao and Stalin have to do with releasing prisoners - you somehow omitted the prior paragraph from Mr. McCarthy's article:
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The Bush administration, it is freely conceded, released many enemy combatants, including many who obviously should have been continued in detention and who have gone on to rejoin the jihad and commit horrific acts of terrorism. That's how we got from about 800 detainees down to about 200.
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McCarthy then goes on to say that this release of 12 prisoners is somehow worse than the release of 600 under the previous administration.
He of course mentions none of details about the twelve - he just asserts that these men are the worst of the worst.
The same was said about the hundreds of other men released from Gitmo. The debunked right wing meme to the contrary, there is no indication that there has been a significant number engaging in terror following their release.
It would be tempting to believe that, having released almost 600 prisoners we might have gotten down to the worst of the worst - but given the abysmal batting average so far - there is little reason to believe unsupported assertions about the guilt of these men.
If McCarthy had some tangible reason to believe these men are the worst of the worst - he should have provided it. He doesn't, of course - so he criticizes the countries these men are being released to (as if that has any bearing on their guilt or innocence) and then repeats an administration designation about Abdullahi Sudi Arale as if it is evidence.
Yawn.
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