Guantanamo - Why Closing it Won't Matter.

Shortly after Barack Obama signed an executive order to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay Cuba. The reason for the order, as the President has told us, and as we hear from people who want it closed, is that the terrorists are using it as a recruiting tool, thus making us less secure than we were prior to 9/11. That's right, by capturing terrorist and putting them in a detention facility outside the United States we make the country less secure than we were the day 19 radical Islamic terrorists hijacked four planes and flew two into the World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon, and one into a farmer's field in Pennsylvania. Yeah. I'd like to know what the terrorists were using as a recruiting tool when they committed those attacks.

Closing the detention center at Guantanamo Bay isn't going to make a difference. The detention facility itself and where it is are not the reason it is used as a recruiting tool. The fact that detainees are held at all is the reason. It doesn't make a difference to the terrorists where their comrades are held. It's that they are held at all. If the detention center is closed and the detainees are moved somewhere within the United States, then that location becomes the new recruiting tool for the terrorists. It won't matter that you give these people civilian lawyers and place them on American soil inside the United States. The terrorists will still say their comrades are being held by the Great Satan of America, that they are being abused, and that they must wage jihad to liberate their brothers. By moving the detainees to a location in the United States, you now make that location a target for terrorists which is more accessible than Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

So the arguments that closing it will make us safer are false on their face. It is not going to matter. Instead the left is going to make the place these people are held a terrorist target, and spend millions more on security, just so that it will make us look good to the rest of the world. It's not going to make us more secure. The left does not respect the threat that terrorism poses. You need only look at their response to the Christmas bomber to see that.

There is no reason to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay that makes us more secure. None. Guantanamo Bay is United States territory. We can keep the detainees there and give them all the rights we want. They don't have to come to the United States for that. But go ahead, let's close it, do what you want. It's not going to make a difference.

Extremus