Flashback - Obama vs. Adm. McRaven on Guantanamo Bay prison

Youtube ^ | 4/30/2013

[Frankusa]

President Obama's views on the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center - namely that the facility "does not advance our national security", but "undermines it" - runs counter to the views of [former] U.S Navy admiral and commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, William McRaven, who, when asked by Sen. Kelly Ayotte - during a Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing in June of 2011 - whether there was a need for a long-term detention & interrogation facility, like Guantanamo Bay, to gather vital intelligence information - replied in the affirmative, saying that a detention center of this nature is indeed "very helpful".

Sen. Kelly Ayotte proceeded to ask Adm. McRaven: "And as far as you understand it, is Guantanamo Bay still off the table in terms of being used for that type of facility?" McRaven replied: "As far as I understand it, it is."

Apparently, President Obama issued a directive forbidding the use of Guantanamo Bay as an interrogation and intelligence-gathering facility, despite the significant value of using the facility for this purpose, as opined by Mr. McRaven. - VIDEO

[Dilbert San Diego]

Somebody help me understand the logic of liberals wanting to close Gitmo.

1. The Muslim radicals started this war against us.
2. The Muslim radicals hate us and would destroy us if they could.

3. Gitmo was set up as a place to out enemy combatants of the war they started against us.

4. Obama and liberals say that the mere presence of Gitmo hurts our image in the world and enrages our enemies.

5. But our enemies started this war against us before Gitmo was a prison for enemy combatants.

I have trouble following The logic here that we have emboldened the enemy by simply having that detention facility.

[rockinqsranch]

Often what is called “liberal logic” is simply “liberal insanity”.