Obama’s Year of Living Blamelessly
The administration has replaced the question of how to protect America with the question of how to redeem America. Closing Guantanamo Bay was quite literally the President’s first order of business—tied with shaming the intelligence community over its terrorist interrogations; whereas keeping terrorists out of the country is literally the last thing the administration will concern itself with this year.
That the issue is being addressed at all is only the result of a terrorist having come within a hair’s breadth of achieving the first mass fatality in the U.S. since 9/11. When Nidal Hasan killed a dozen Americans at Fort Hood in November, recall that the T-word was verboten at the White House and the President told us not to “jump to conclusions.” Funny that Obama himself has jumped to a rather dubious conclusion about would-be Christmas bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. Speaking Monday, Obama described Abdulmutallab as an “isolated extremist.” Good to know.