Monday, January 26, 2009

Obama's Early Executive Orders--Inconsistent and Dangerous

President Obama's initial executive orders reflect a sharp move to the left and are a cause for major concern to those who are serious about national security and the sanctity of life. His order promising to close Guantanamo Bay within a year was designed to please the far left of his party, but it leaves a lot of questions. What will we do with the current inmates? Send them back to their native countries? Move them to a U.S. facility? Why should the U.S. military capture terrorists for interrogation purposes if no one knows where they will go and how they will be interrogated. A member of the military will be tempted to kill a terrorist rather than capture one for intelligence purposes if faced with the uncertainty that Obama's order creates. Of additional concern is that Obama has appointed a prominent member of the ACLU to be an attorney for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. This individual has spent the last few years attacking the interrogation methods used by the Bush Administration that have helped keep the country safe for the past seven years. Now he is partly responsible for changing those methods.

During his first week President Obama also signed an Executive Order lifting the ban on U.S. funding of overseas abortion counseling and actual abortions by non-governmental groups. This ban was put in place by Ronald Reagan, retained by President Bush (1), lifted by Bill Clinton and reinstated by George W. Bush. This action is another appeal to Obama's far left base. He has also placed a prominent member of the pro-Abortion NARAL organization in a senior position at the Justice Department.

In sum, despite calls for a bi-partisan spirit, the President is showing mercy and comfort to brutal terrorists while endorsing brutality for the most defenseless among us. This is not change we can believe in.

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