Posted on 05/24/2009 8:39:16 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
In the next few days, you're going to see an increasingly intense debate on the question of whether the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay is a major factor in terrorist recruitment. In that debate, you're going to hear a name you might not have heard, Matthew Alexander. And you're going to learn that what you've been told about Guantanamo and terrorist recruitment is not the whole story.
In his speech on Thursday, President Obama gave two reasons for his decision to shut down Guantanamo. The first was that it has lowered American standing in the world, and the second was that it is a recruitment tool for terrorists. "Guantanamo became a symbol that helped al-Qaeda recruit terrorists to its cause," the president said. "Indeed, the existence of Guantanamo likely created more terrorists around the world than it ever detained." While Obama certainly views America's standing in the world as important, it is the charge that Guantanamo is a terrorist recruitment tool that is the real foundation of the decision to shut the detention center down. Absent that allegation, it is unlikely that Guantanamo would be slated for closing.
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Our rotten corrupt amoral western culture reflected in Las Vegas and Hollywood has also led to jihad recruitment.
Will obama also shut them down?
The jihadis are allegedly more upset over incidents of Koran defilement than they are over water boarding. Go figure.
So how did they recruit the 9/11 hijackers, 1993 WTC bombers, etc etc etc?
There was no Gitmo to drive them mad back then . . .
I’d like Alexander to give a convincing explanation as to why he believes that people are stating their true motives and not some BS that they were instructed to say.
He sounds like a patsy to me.
No doubt the MSM gets tingles up its legs just thinking about its ability to abuse its power this way.
Bin Laden cited the Soviet debacle in Afghanistan and the United States' failed 1993 mission in Somalia as examples to suggest a U.S. defeat in Afghanistan was within reach.
"We believe that the defeat of America is possible, with the help of God, and is even easier for us -- God permitting -- than the defeat of the Soviet Union was before."
In Somalia, U.S. forces pulled out after 18 U.S. special operations personnel were killed during a raid against a warlord faction in the capital Mogadishu.
"Our brothers with Somali mujahedeen and God's power fought the Americans. God granted them victory. America exited dragging its tails in failure, defeat, and ruin," bin Laden said.
The claim came just a few weeks before the collapse of his Taliban supporters in Afghanistan and the dispersal of his hardcore al Qaeda loyalists.
What probably drives them nuts is that their Holy Book tells them hat Allah has made them masters of this world, but a cursory look around tells them otherwise.
These taqqiyah artists are enjoying this. Remember the scene in “Die Hard” where Hans Gruber thinks a few seconds and makes up a name of a terror cell he wants released from prison as one of his kidnap “demands”? “Asian Dawn”; then the press ran with it, the cops completely bought into it; meanwhile, all Gruber and his boys wanted was a vault full of bearer-bonds.
The al-qaeda boys are fighting us because we’re there, and because of our support for Israel. Any other answer they give is a canard, and, like in “Die Hard”, the press and the idiots in high places swallow it whole.
OPINION:
The hard fact is that anything can be used as a recruitment tool for the global jihad.
If it isn’t gitmo, it’s the cartoon jihad, fitna, soccer ball jihad, Various books jihad, rushdie jihad, toilet bowl jihad, immigrants aren’t understood jihad, abu gharib, pork in the food jihad, etc, etc, until the end of time...the global jihad.
...so how did the terrorists recruit people before the opening of Guantanamo?
Recruiting tool? Best way to make any suspected AlQ dumbass start crapping in his dishdasha was to tell him he was going to Gitmo. How is that a recruitment tool?
Hahaha!
Exactly! Thank you for that.
It is just so disgusting to sit and listen to Obama or any other commie lib Democrat recite the liberal talking point, that the containment of terrorists in Cuba, is driving terrorist recruitment around the world. That's like saying that containing criminals in prison only fuels more people to commit crimes.
It takes a "special" kind of idiot to stand up and say such nonsense, because there simply isn't any logic in such a foolish assertion.
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