Bergdahl case shows Obama's shameless nonsensical Gitmo policy

Byron York:

The Bowe Bergdahl debacle — trading five senior Taliban commanders for one American prisoner now charged with desertion — has its roots in President Obama's determination to close the terrorist prison at Guantanamo Bay. If the president's past is any guide, there will be more Gitmo-related fiascos in the future.

Obama has exhibited an unmistakable pattern of behavior in recent years: When Congress fails to do what he wants, he does it himself, or threatens to.

When it comes to Guantanamo, a growing number of lawmakers in the GOP-controlled Congress is more determined than ever to keep the prison facility open. In coming months they are likely to strengthen current restrictions on Obama's ability to release inmates. Those restrictions will run head-on into the president's resolve to close Guantanamo — and his penchant for unilateral executive action. The result could be ugly.

Obama is already forbidden by law from transferring Guantanamo inmates to the United States or building a facility to house them here. A new bill sponsored by Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte and co-sponsored by 26 other GOP senators would also prevent Obama from transferring risky detainees to any other country for the next two years. It would make it harder to carry through any releases at all, and it would specifically ban releases to the country of Yemen for the next two years.

The Ayotte bill has passed the Armed Services Committee and appears headed for a vote in the full Senate. A spokesman for Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday that McConnell "supports the Ayotte bill, and believes that it's a terrible time to be returning detainees to Yemen in particular."
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Obama's invalid assumption for wanting to close Gitmo is that it "creates more terrorist."   He bases this on what some of the enemy say.  But whatever they say in that regard is irrelevant.  It is like turning open the doors of prison to reduce crime.  Of course the enemy does not like Gitmo because it takes some of their top players off the battle field,  But that is the point of its being there to begin with.  They also don';t like being shot at by drones, but that certainly has not stopped the administration from using them and Gitmo is a much more effective policy than the drones because it can get intelligence information from the enemy rather than destroying their hard drives.

The biggest problem with Gitmo is that we are not capturing and detaining the enemy.  Since Obama stopped doing that, the numbers of the enemy have grown exponentially.

Finally, the enemy is fighting us because they are Islamic religious bigots whose ideology is one of Islamic supremacy.  That is what they are fighting for.  There main objection to Gitmo is that it makes their goal more difficult.