Making It In America

I have a tendency to be a dove.  I don’t like war and I hate torture.  President Obama has given orders to close Gitmo and let the world know that the United States does not believe in torture and that it abides by the rules, the domestic and international laws governing the treatment of detainees. He took a decisive step.  But, was it a step with a back-up plan?  Does it insist that the countries that have been kidnapping and beheading Americans stop and treat their detainees with the same respect?  Does he have a plan for getting information from detainees that will keep Americans save from further terrorist attacks?

My hope and my prayer is that Obama has been investigating and studying his moves in detail.  When something in the magnitude is done on the second day in office, I admit it, I worry a little about a well-thought out plan.  You see, I don’t like torture, but I also don’t like seeing buildings in American being blown up by foreign terrorists.  I don’t like seeing firemen dying as they try to save people that shouldn’t have needed saving.  I don’t like seeing headlines that show that more of the same was planned and stopped due to intelligence gained by Gitmo tactics.  At the same time, I would hate to see them not stopped and more Americans dying because we just wanted to be perceived as the good guy.

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