american_prisoner.jpg“President Obama signed several executive orders effecting the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, CIA run secret detention facilities and illegal interrogations.”

Detention camps? Secret CIA facilities? Illegal interrogations? Does that sound like the United States Of America? I’m glad they are being addressed and hopefully corrected but it’s hard to hear just how badly we have handled things.

Let me clear something up before I continue. I am very proud to be an American and a United States’ Veteran. Any person found guilty of terrorism, the 9/11 attacks or illegal activities against a nation should face prosecution and punishment.

We don’t need government agencies like the CIA to be run like a crime syndicate with endless funds and no legal responsibility.

I’m not some weak and naïve human rights advocate that just wants some of the most dangerous terrorists in the world to be released. (I’m not insinuating that human rights advocates are weak or naïve) Many things can be done ‘in the name of peace‘ but, as we can see, you end up with illegal interrogations and prisoners being held for years without trial.

Is that how our founding fathers wanted the United States Government to conduct it’s world affairs and challenges?

As far as I’m concerned the Bush administration failed on every imaginable level. I’m glad to see George W. Bush out of office and I hope as a country we have learned something from the eight year disaster we endured. I have a lot of hope for President Obama and only time will tell if things will improve but he seems to be on the right track.

My favorite quote from President Obama’s inaugural address:

We will not apologize for our way of life, nor will we waver in its defense, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken; you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you.

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