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Because most republicans dont have a problem with it and most democrats only care about stuff like that when it is a republican president. As an argument, it would gain no traction...same with the expanded use of black ops prisons, reversing decisions on civilian trials of terrorists and granting them constitutional rights, expanding the patriot acts powers, etc.
most democrats understand that as the leader of a country and the head of the military any person would keep lists of threats and targets for their military and foreign forces. The people who think there shouldn't be one are unrealistic pacifists who think everyone should dance around and hug people. Now it is not horrible to work on ending violence in the world, but to completely avoid strategic information like important leaders of very real enemies of your country would be downright negligent. the people who think that it is wrong are stupid people who are neither democrat or republican. They are like the dolts in PETA and are pacifist morons who are more dangerous to themselves and others than any good they do. No Obama never made any promises to those people to be a pacifist and not keep america safe from those who would attack it by laying down all weapons and opening up the US to attack to appease the pacifists. there was never a claim to do such things, though the republicans love to say there was. At best obama claimed to try and bring us out of the wars we were in, but he never claimed he would do it all all costs.
Like always republican distortion of reality is making a stupid issue. Especially when you consider the republicans should have no problem with Obama keeping america safer by focussing on primary enemies of the US. I think the only mistake obama made was the declaration that he was going to make effort to close military prisons for foreign combatants while the wars were going on. Simply they are part of the war, and they are not american citizens who have the same rights and position as american citizens. I always thought that claim was naieve and I am glad that when he got into office he made an attempt to do something about it and learned you simply cannot treat foreign war prisoners under the same laws and rules as you treat US citizens with. They do not live in this country, and our domestic laws simply do not apply to them. He seems to understand much better his position as commander in cheif of a nation at war. Since putting them back into their positions would only lead to them again organizing attacks on the US and make the war worse there is no reason to release them until their countries will do something aside from assist them in making plans to attack the US. Peaceful countries do not do or allow that. If we found US citizens buying weapons in an attempt to attack the UK or it's citizens our authorities would do something about it. Very simply the countries these people live in support and allow them to plot against the US and for that they cannot be allowed to return to those places until the fighting is over.
Yes, that last part does go against Obama's past promises, and it is one of the promises I disagreed with and am happy he did not keep. If he wants to treat them better and end the torture or enhanced interrogation techniques I am cool with that, but I have always been realistic about the war. one of my disagreements with bush was that he half assed the war when he decided to get into it and that prolonged what should have been a quick and decisive victory into the bull**** we are still in today. If we were going to do all this **** we should have done like we did with japan in ww2. We should have hit them hard and wiped out every bit of opposition or ability to make future war and then helped to rebuild them with their own resources. We could have secured the country much better than we did with bush in charge. yeah, they still would have hated us for years, but those scars would heal and we could have rebuilt them into something better rather than giving it over to greedy contractors and all this other bull**** and letting them sink down into what they were before we wasted all that money.