re: #76 Charles

I don’t know about you, but I expect an elected President of the United States to resist pressure to do something he knows is not right.

I’m no more willing to accept that as an excuse than I am to excuse Sarah Palin for quitting because she was being “pressured.”

I agree. No terrorist should every be released by any president. There is no excuse. We know the Saudis and others like them are subject to corruption, double dealing and worse.

These two are among several who have been released and then engaged in terrorism. We do not know what the evidence against them was, or how well it would have stood up in court. We do know that releasing them was a tragic and despicable error.

This near atrocity is a powerful argument for keeping a Gitmo type facility open and permanently detaining all suspected terrorists.