The Law of Unintended Consequences Strikes Again.
The legacy of the Obama administration is, rapidly, shaping up as the most impetuous administration the USA has ever seen. It seems that his grandiose proclamations are, one-by-one, being followed by reversals and backtracking that have the Obama administration looking, more and more, like the Bush administration each and every day. His proclamation that Guantanamo prisoners have rights in Federal Courts is now being backtracked to the Bush doctrine of Military tribunals. The difficulties associated with the closing of Guantanamo and the release of the Guantanamo prisoners poses a greater problem for President Obama than Candidate Obama contemplated. What will be done with the Guantanamo prisoners now that the rest of the world has shown an extreme reluctance to take them? The Obama administration has already stated that many of them will end up in the United States, perhaps as one of your neighbors.
Obama's decision to release the Enhanced Interrogation Techniques photographs was, quickly, reversed based on the advice of the Pentagon and it is my prediction that he will also choose to reverse his decision not to release the hotly contested memos, requested by Dick Cheney in his FOIA request, which reportedly cite specific successes of the EITs. Obama's cherry picking of only the memos which make a case against the Bush administration, without releasing the memos which demonstrate the effectiveness of the EITs in keeping America safe, will smack of a cover-up and a purely political motivation in releasing the memoranda in the first place.
Obama's decision to release the Enhanced Interrogation Techniques photographs was, quickly, reversed based on the advice of the Pentagon and it is my prediction that he will also choose to reverse his decision not to release the hotly contested memos, requested by Dick Cheney in his FOIA request, which reportedly cite specific successes of the EITs. Obama's cherry picking of only the memos which make a case against the Bush administration, without releasing the memos which demonstrate the effectiveness of the EITs in keeping America safe, will smack of a cover-up and a purely political motivation in releasing the memoranda in the first place.
In a flurry of political justice, the Democrat's highest ranking member, President Obama, in an attempt to discredit Bush and the prior administration with the issue of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, has shot his own party in the foot and now it is Nancy Pelosi, Democrat and Speaker Of The House, who must fight for her political survival because of her apparent complicity with that which her political peers have said is criminal conduct by the Bush administration.
Ultimately, the larger picture may be seen by some of the more enlightened Democrats, that President Obama should look before he leaps into decisions which seem to have more of an adverse than a positive effect on congressional members of his own party. Such is the Law of Unintended Consequences and the justice that it can bring. In this revelation, President Obama may, currently, be viewed by his own party as a "loose cannon" and a future political liability to the Democrats as he continues to, inadvertently, expose their own wrong doing through his political jabs at the prior administration.
Such is the need for gun control in the Democratic party.
Ultimately, the larger picture may be seen by some of the more enlightened Democrats, that President Obama should look before he leaps into decisions which seem to have more of an adverse than a positive effect on congressional members of his own party. Such is the Law of Unintended Consequences and the justice that it can bring. In this revelation, President Obama may, currently, be viewed by his own party as a "loose cannon" and a future political liability to the Democrats as he continues to, inadvertently, expose their own wrong doing through his political jabs at the prior administration.
Such is the need for gun control in the Democratic party.
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