Article snippet: Posted at 9:00 pm on July 8, 2017 by streiff One of Obama’s campaign promises in the 2008 campaign was to shut down the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Shortly after inauguration he signed an executive order directing the facility be shuttered within a year. Needless to say, that didn’t happen. Now the facility seems to be getting ready to return to business. Obama’s struggle to shut down Guantanamo probably had more to do with the rise of ISIS and spread of al-Qaeda than any other act. You only gain intelligence by interrogation. When Obama decided he was going to play tough guy by killing enemy commanders via drone attacks (“I’m really good at killing people”) the real purpose to eliminate the inflow of prisoners while giving the illusion of being a psychopath doing something substantive. Early in the Trump administration the Washington Post reported on a draft executive order which not only rescinded the Obama executive order closing Guantanamo but restarted the process of black prisons and extraordinary rendition (full disclosure: I’m in favor of both.) If we are serious about fighting Islamic terrorism, radical or garden variety, we need a place to hold prisoners taken in combat and intelligence operations and we need to be able to interrogate them. Killing them sounds tough but it isn’t how wars are won. Link to the full article to read more