In my last blog i alluded to the problem with political correctness and the issues it is causing in the prosecution of the war on Terror.  Recently it has become apparent that the uncertainty and lack of clarity on the issue clouds the outcome.

Said Ali al-Shihri is a saudi who was captured in the wake of 9/11 in Afghanistan.  He was interred in Guantanamo and was found to have close terrorist ties to Al Qaeda.  Despite this, he was released on the promise to go back to the kingdom of Saud and work in his families furniture shop.

As with so many of those we have released in the name of political correctness, he has returned to the battlefield.  Most recently in a propaganda film supporting Al Qaeda and assisting with their theological branching into Yemen.

He has not been found directly responsible for the actions of Abdulmutallab, however his influence has assisted in the radicalizing of him.  Additional his assistance in the standing up Al Qaeda in Yemen which trained and financed the botched operation of the “Underpants Bomber”.

Couple his release which indirectly lead to the near catastrophe on Christmas with the fact that the liberals wish to free and impart rights to our enemies that they don’t deserve, and you end up having people spending several years in prison, awaiting a trial.  In Al Shihri’s case, he is quoted as “By God, our imprisonment has only increased our persistence and adherence to our principles,”.  Therefore keeping them in prison longer only foments this process.

Is it not a better servant of Justice to declare these leaderless, uniformless, armyless individuals as prisoners of war, and trying them by Court Martial; than to keep them in limbo for six or seven years, growing their hate and disdain of this “Great Satan”?

Hence why being a prisoner, is much better than a “detainee”.  It imparts justice quicker, saves tax payer money, and makes these people less political pawns than they need to be.

During the years of the Bush Administration, the most foul terrorist attack that has ever occurred on our soil occurred, only 8 months into his administration.  There was never another attack since that.  So far the Obama administration is already epically failing.

On obama’s watch, there have been TWO terrorist attacks against American citizens.  Luckily only one has claimed any lives.  His reluctance to call it what it is, completely undermines the seriousness of the Islamic war against America.  What will it take to make this threat that was so obvious on September 12, 2001?  Another massive attack on US soil?  I pray not.

Immediately after 9/11, Bush announced we would persecute those responsible to the ends of Earth.  So here we are, 8 years later, still battling the Islamo-Fascists ideas that caused that horrible attack.

Bush allowed for a looser interpretation of the rule of law, in order for the entities that needed it, more freedom to prosecute this new type of war.  Bush understood that this was a battle unlike any that America had faced.

Ours is not a war of ideals, of uniformed soldiers in organized conflict with each other using tanks, airplanes, or artillery.  This is a new kind of war.  This new kind of war necessitates a new kind of fighting.  The traditional ways are of no use since our enemy is faceless.

The liberals don’t understand this.  They want to focus on this Abdulmutallab and make him a victim.  Thats what liberals do you know, they make victims out of everyone.  They did it for Maj Nadal Hasan.  They painted them as “teased”, ridiculed, mocked, harassed because they were “Muslim”.  So by this reasoning, anyone could engage in mass murder because they were fat, ugly, lonely, jewish, asian, etc.

Liberals also want to use their feelings in this fight.  They feel that non-American citizens are entitled to the same protections and rights that I and my brothers here in Iraq are fighting for.  It is an insult of the most egregious kind to think that we American Soldiers would be fighting to extend the rights of our countrymen to foreigners, to stand trial in our courts.

By making terrorists “victims”,  and allow them our citizen’s rights, the Liberals are undermining our ability to persecute this war.  Not even the Nazis, who murdered innocent civilians based on their religion, were brought to America to face a civilian trial.  They were tried in Nuremberg, and in many cases sentenced to hang by the neck until they were dead.

Why should these evil people who are murdering our fellow American’s be treated better than the Nazis?  This is a holy war, not for us, but for them.  They hate us because we are not an Islamic nation.  No amount of grace we show them will correct this.  They will attack us until they kill us all, or convert us to Islam.  They view it as an edict of their prophet, that Islam be spread by the sword.

It is not our job to judge them, that is God’s job alone.  It is simply our purpose to arrange the visit.