Again, I am astounded. In a previous post I wrote that finally, there was some sort of common sense coming out of Washington when they denied Obama the funds to relocate Guantanamo detainees to the US mainland. Boy did I underestimate the top Democrat. It looks like the Obama administration is looking to offload 100 Yemeni detainees, who cannot be sent home because there is a high likelihood that they will be released and may join or rejoin Al Qaeda, on Saudi Arabia (a country neighboring Yemen) for: terrorist rehabilitation. That’s right: rehab. It looks like the guys in charge of national security came up with the idea: “if it works on Britney, it should also work on Bin Laden.”

Just last month, the National Counterterrorism Center said that the United States is not doing enough to defeat Al Qaeda. Given this reality, how can the administration think that it is a good idea to send them back to the Arabian Peninsula? The push for appeasement is unbelievably strong in this administration. Some might say “well, maybe rehab works.” Well, let’s take a look at what happens in “terrorist rehab.”

According to Slate, they are sent to a desert resort where they swim in pools, play video games, play soccer, and learn to practice moderate Islam. Of course, their version of moderate Islam is Wahhabism which “prohibit jihad unless there is an official fatwa.” So in terrorist rehab, they do not change them from being terrorists, they simply change the conditions under which they engage in terrorism. It has to be an official “fatwa” for their terrorism to be “good.” To graduate, they take an exam and if they pass, then they are released.

There you have it: lemonade by the pool, PlayStation games, a written test and voilà ! no more terrorist (unless of course a fatwa is issued). If the interrogators at Guantanamo would have known this then the type of waterboarding we would have used would have involved a surf board and sandy beaches. Silly CIA.

Of course, some of the graduates have returned to Al Qaeda’s ranks already. What a surprise. Obama’s agenda of closing Guantanamo regardless of the national security consequences is irresponsible and dangerous. This is the most naïve presidency since Carter… when will America wake up?

-AG