What do you do when your base is angry about GITMO? I guess
that you promise to close it again. You also blame Congress for not giving you
the money to do it. The
problem is that it was a Congress controlled by Democrats that did not provide
the funding.
What about drones? You promise that we will "drone" more
carefully from now on. Let's hope that the terrorists will cooperate by keeping
children away from them.
What about tapping reporters phones? You say that it was
about national security and because that "darn Congress" didn't pass the media
shield law.
By the way, does anyone remember President Obama persuading
members of Congress to pass the media shield law? I don't!
Overall, I rate this as a speech trying to win back the left.
I did not hear much more than that. My guess is that it will be largely
forgotten when the next IRS official comes to Congress and says "I don't
know".
President Obama's basic problem is that reality does not allow
him to keep the base happy. Are you listening Pink Ladies?
Let's go back to GITMO. Where are you going to put these
people? We don't know and no other country has stepped up to the plate
requesting to have their nationals back. I don't see much enthusiasm from
Senate Democrats to put this on their agenda before the 2014 elections. They
already have their hands full with ObamaCAre.
Overall, the message about the war on terror was just
silly.
He claims that the US has not been attacked in a large scale
since 9-11. Well, I would argue that Ft Hood and Boston were pretty big. There
were about 200 people injured in Boston! Ask the relatives of the 19 people
killed at Ft Hood about it.
He blames the "Internet" for the new wave of terrorism. I
agree that the Internet has facilitated "training" and "recruiting". However,
President Obama did not put forward any ideas on fighting this new kind of
terrorism learned from the Internet.
Unfortunately for President Obama, and specially the millions
who bought into "hope and change", the war will continue because the bad guys
are still determined to kill Americans. This war will go on for a long time and
we better come to the terms with that.
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