According to The New York Times, President Obama signed executive orders undoing three of the foundational items in George Bush's counterterrorism stategy. First, the closing of Guantanamo within a year (with no stated plans of what to do with the terrorists imprisoned there), second, ending the CIA secret prisons (just for the record, that program began under Bill Clinton), and third, all interrogations will now follow the noncoercive methods of the Army field manual. This sounds very noble--the idea is that we have claimed the 'moral high ground'. I would lilke to point out that all prisoners we have held and are holding still have their heads, their hands and their feet. I'm not for mistreatment, but I think this one case when one man's comfort or discomfort cannot be valued above the well being of innocent civilians.
At some point it needs to be noted that there are people out there whose goal is to destroy our civilizaiton. Not all Muslims are terrorists, but so far, the majority of terrorists are Muslims, and if you remember, they have no problem killing innocent civilians or removing the heads of anyone they happen to kidnap. I am sure there are a number of terrorist leaders looking at these three executive orders by Obama and rubbing their hands with glee. There will now be no real problem for terrorists who are captured. We will go back to the Clinton days of "Take me to New York so I can see my lawyer" (approximately the words of one terrorist captured early in the Iraq war).
Bill Clinton dealt with the terrorist problem as a legal matter--he prosecuted the people responsible for the first World Trade Center bombing in a court of law. There were no real consequences for the people who actually planned the operation overseas. George Bush changed the rules--he said essentially to the terrorists- you mess with us, we will mess with you. During the Clinton years we were attacked overseas a number of times (embassies, the US Cole, etc.) and plots were stopped at home (LAX 2000), but the planning of terrorist attacks continued. I am sure the planning of terrorist attacks continued under George Bush, but the terrorists knew that the consequences of an attack or of being captured by the Americans would be high. The terrorists now have no reason to fear capture, and I am afraid they may not have to fear the consequnces of commmitting terrorist acts if we bring back the trials in American courtrooms for terrorists. We may have regained 'the moral high ground', but we have probably put ourselves at risk by doing so. Intellectually it's a great idea, practically, it's a formula for a major terriorist attack against America.
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