Terror - The clock is ticking...

So what happens if some of these Gitmo releasees are found to be at the center of another 9-11? Two have already found their way back to terror groups.

There will be prosecutions. If these are not carried out in a reasonable manner, then yeah, some bad guys are going to be back in business. As of now, I think the
prosecutions will be reasonable. We'll see.

. . . One change is an end to the military tribunals that were taking place. . . .

US troops donate more to Obama than McCain
Aug 14, 2008

WASHINGTON (AFP) " US troops, stationed both abroad and in the US, have donated more money to Democrat Barack Obama than to decorated war hero Republican John McCain, a study published Thursday showed.

The study by the Center for Responsive Politics, a non-partisan research group, showed that by the end of June, Obama had received six times more from soldiers stationed abroad than Vietnam war veteran McCain, who comes from a prestigious military family.

Even McCain's former rival for the Republican nomination, Ron Paul, who opposed the Iraq war, had managed to garner more funds.

Obama had received some 60,642 dollars in donations from soldiers stationed abroad, while McCain had just 10,665 dollars, the study said.

Paul, who failed early in the Republican primaries to attract as much support as McCain, was given some 45,512 dollars for his campaign.

Across all troops, Obama's campaign also attracted more funding than his rivals, bringing in some 335,000 dollars compared to 280,000 for McCain. Only in the Marine Corps is McCain leading Obama, by some 4,000 dollars

Despise him, respect him, or be one of the poor souls with BDS, one issue where the Bush Administration was able to run out the clock was this:

Since 2001, there was not another terrorist attack on US soil.

Now, with the Obama admin closing Gitmo and undoing many of the policies Bush put in place, how will future attacks (if any) be evaluated?

Side note: It appears Obama is going back to the Clinton strategy of treating Islamic terror as a law enforcement issue rather than a military issue in their approach to homeland security. One question I haven't heard addressed is what will happen to those being released from Gitmo?

One of the things that drove my pragmatic liberal friends in CA nuts was Jerry Brown's treatment of crime issues when Gov. His appt of Rose Bird and two other extreme left wing lawyers to the state supreme court led to their eventual recall and a law and order movement that only recently went away. Nothing angers voters like hearing about violent felons released by liberal judges, going out a few months later and victimizing yet more people.

So what happens if some of these Gitmo releasees are found to be at the center of another 9-11? Two have already found their way back to terror groups.

Who is held accountable?

Will the national press even raise the issue?

It is odd to me that the success or failure of a terrorist attack has become not a discussion of liberty versus security, but of whom to blame.

I'm much less concerned about a terrorist attack than I am about maintaining the integrity of our Constitution, our republic, and our moral values. How can we tell our children, "do the right thing" while we know that torture is being carried out by our government?

IMO, terrorism is a law enforcement issue. Discussing a "war on terror" gives a legitimacy to these murderers that isn't justified.