It's all about WAR, people

A HUGE discussion about issues related to the "detainees" at Gitmo has broken out. The Senate, including almost all members from both sides of the aisle (96!), found their spine yesterday and cut off the threat to close the prison and force the "detainees" to be transferred to US soil.

It seems NO ONE wants them on US soil, except the firm of leftist lawyers that was USAG Eric Holder's immediate past employer (that firm represents 17 of the terrorists) and the President of the United States.

This forced Obama to get on his teleprompter high horse this morning and lecture us on our duty to be civil at all times to everyone.

It also prompted former Veep Dick Cheney to throw marbles beneath the hooves of the POTUS' high horse.

It's a fine debate, but it's unnecessary.

This question is simply about war, and the right of nations to protect themselves from external threats by engaging those threats in wars offshore.

The Bush Administration held to that policy, and the Obama Administration abhors it.

It's that simple.

Leftists do not believe that any nation has the right of self-defense except at or within it's own shores or borders.

That is a core principle of leftism. The USSR and it's political stooges like Castro's Cuba didn't follow it because it basically wasn't a leftist government in charge there, it was dictatorships, and the dictators who ran that system for 70 years actually had a strong desire to project power around the globe militarily. They would have done better if they had had decent Navies, but I'm digressing.

The Preamble to the US Constitution:

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

That's pretty clear. The defense of the Nation is mentioned in the very first sentence of the Constitution that President Obama claims to admire and has sworn to uphold and defend.

"Provide for the Common Defense" was a fine turn of phrase, but in fact, the United States Navy was born 12 years before the Constitution of the United States, and thirty-three years before it's complete ratification.

 "On Friday, October 13, 1775, meeting in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress voted to fit out two sailing vessels, armed with ten carriage guns, as well as swivel guns, and manned by crews of eighty, and to send them out on a cruise of three months to intercept transports carrying munitions and stores to the British army in America. This was the original legislation out of which the Continental Navy grew and as such constitutes the birth certificate of the navy."

Follow this link to that Navy History page. Note that those ships went out from these shores onto the international high seas to interrupt the British supply chain, so the principle of perfecting our self-defense AWAY from these shores was firmly established by the original Continental Congress.

This Nation has, several times in it's almost 233-year history, been plagued by leadership which denied our basic right to carry our defensive fight for survival away from these shores. In all cases, common sense for the common defense prevailed in the end, but it has caused us anxious moments, moments which did not need to happen, if only those leaders knew and respected their own national history.

Holding the "detainees" offshore makes perfect sense, especially since they are being held in a US enclave surrounded by a hostile communist dictatorship. I have no doubt in my military mind that in the unlikely event that a "detainee" DID escape past the wire at Gitmo, he wouldn't make it far past the Cubans' wire.

On the other hand, there is a severe threat that the Federal "super-max" prisons so glibly referred to by the POTUS this morning are no match for a liberal, activist Federal judge looking to improve his or her leftist creds by forcing the release or, release into general prison population of a "detainee". That WILL happen if "detainees" are brought here, and there is plenty of money volunteered by the wealthy Left to guarantee that many, many lawyers stay employed to ensure it happens. There's also the little matter of "visitation". All prisoners on US soil are permitted visitation by family, etc. This "visitation" in the case of the "detainees" would likely include terrorist agents giving or getting orders from the "detainees".

Bring them here, and terror cells form around them, even in prison. That's guaranteed.

Just how is that NOT increasing the terror threat to the nation you lead, Mr. President?

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[Aaron Neal]

Our Nation is at war, even if our current POTUS refuses acknowledge it.

I'm not a sworn member of the military, but I WILL acknowledge our current state of war.

I'm a member of the Militia, according to the original definition of such. Enemies of America, don't come looking for trouble in my neck of the woods.