Obama’s chickens, are coming home to roost. Powerline Blog reports that leading terrorist fighters who were once terrorist detainees. Most of these terrorists were likely released by Obama.
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Today’s column by David Ignatius contains this line: “Most of al Qaeda in Iraq’s leading fighters were imprisoned by U.S. occupation troops, but incarceration was a school for jihad, and they emerged tougher, better connected and more dedicated.” Al Qaeda in Iraq is the original name for ISIS.
I’m not sure what Ignatius’ point, if any, is. My point would be that the “incarceration as a school for jihad” theory is a great argument for not releasing captured terrorist fighters (and for solitary confinement). That way, they won’t “emerge” at all.
In Iraq, after a certain point, we didn’t have control over the fate of prisoners. But we had it for the large number of prisoners detained at Gitmo, and we were the ones who released Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS, when he was detained in Iraq. We will also have control of many terrorist prisoners when a future American president renews our largely lapsed battle against Islamist terrorism.