To Obama: This Is Small In Every Way

Andy McCarthy in NRO.

In sum, this is what I said it was a week ago: a farce. The President boxed himself into a corner by promising to close Gitmo without a plan for how to deal with terrorists who could not be tried in the civilian system, and by slandering the Bush commissions, which were a perfectly legitimate, thoughtful, civilized legal system that provided an unprecedented appellate judicial check on the trials of enemy war criminals. Desperate to reassure the Bush Derangement crowd, Obama is trying to bluff the country into thinking he's engaged in a major overhaul when it's really a tweak — and an utterly unnecessary one at that. The media will swoon over how he's evolving and at what a big guy he is to come to grips with what they, too, suddenly see as difficult national security challenges. But a big guy is capable of admitting when he's been wrong. This is small, in every way.

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