Obama seems to believe that he is above the law of contradiction. As Dick Cheney pointed out so clearly, there is a hard choice to be made. Either we treat terrorists as criminals or we treat them as enemies. It is logically impossible to compromise between these two contradictory approaches. Recent history clearly shows that the criminal approach doesn't work and the military one does.
Obama can't grasp this. He believes he can calibrate rhetoric and policy to walk a fine line between treating our enemies as criminal defendants and treating them as enemies who have placed themselves beyond the protection of all civilized rules. Obama comes to a fork in the road, and he takes it, repeatedly.
How many more deeply foolish speeches will this guy have to deliver before most people realize that he is deeply foolish. Here is a guy with, at best, average intelligence and the enemedia is still telling us that his IQ is “off the charts.”
How long can image and reality be so grossly at odds with one another?
He knew about this when he ran for office. Now he complains about it? His lack of experience is amazing. I always said we, at this time, need a war time President. VP Cheney would have been the perfect man for the job. I don’t think he was electable because the American people just don’t get it.