Obama ‘aiding and abetting the enemy’

In calling for the policy change, Obama said the move would save taxpayers money without compromising security. In fact, Obama argues that America is less safe because of the facility.

“For many years, it’s been clear that the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay does not advance our national security. It undermines it,” said Obama Tuesday. “This is not just my opinion. This is the opinion of many in our military. It’s counterproductive to our fight against terrorists because they use it as propaganda in their efforts to recruit.“

Retired three-star U.S. Air Force Gen. Tom McInerney isn’t buying it.  “That absolutely false. It’s like, ‘If you like your health plan, you can keep your health plan.’ There is no truth to that whatsoever,” McInerney told WND and Radio America.

McInerney, who rose to the third highest position in the Air Force, is also a Fox News military analyst. He said the U.S. can’t be safer when 30 percent of the detainees released return to radical groups and continue their efforts to kill Americans and other enemies.

He said the existence of the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay doesn’t change the terrorists’ game plan one iota.  “They’re beheading people because of their radical ideology of radical Islam, the Quran, the hadith and Shariah law,” he said. “That’s what motivates those people, not because they’ve got people in Gitmo.”

The general sees countless downsides to Obama trying to shutter the camp, and he struggles to see any good reasons to do it.  He asked, “Why would we do this and encourage other future radical Islamists to think, ‘Well, it doesn’t matter if I’m captured?  They’re not going to do anything to me’?”

When asked to answer his own question, McInerney said Obama has committed a series of national security blunders that make the U.S. more vulnerable.  “I do not know why he did all the things he does. Why did he exchange Sgt. (Bowe) Bergdahl for five four-star general equivalents? Why did he not respond in Benghazi and send reinforcements?” McInerney asked. “Why did he flip to supporting radical Islamists in 2012? I don’t have those answers, except every one of them ends up with aiding and abetting the enemy.”

McInerney also referenced the Obama administration releasing more than $100 billion in frozen Iranian assets as part of the Iran nuclear deal, even as Secretary of State John Kerry admitted some of that money would likely sponsor terrorism.

Obama said the American people should be reassured that ‘federal courts’ can handle most of the remaining cases originating from Guantanamo, but McInerney is outraged that Obama would extend the constitutional protections enjoyed by all citizens to America’s enemies. “Why would we give them the rights of every American citizen? That makes no sense,” he said. “What kind of ‘president’ do we have that is basically aiding and abetting the enemy?”

Obama says access to American courts did not stop the convictions of would-be terrorists such as attempted shoe bomber Richard Reid, attempted Christmas Day underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and attempted Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad. He says they were found guilty and pose no threat to the U.S. even though they remain on U.S. soil.

Does that assuage McInerney’s concerns? “They were not caught on the battlefield,” he said. “If you’re caught on the battlefield, then you should be treated appropriately. We didn’t let the German and Japanese POWs go before the end of World War II, did we?”

He said closing Guantanamo would be a huge mistake.