(Guantanamo Prison)Legitimization Of Counterterrorism Policies -- Jack Goldsmith, Washington Post
A Washington Post/ABC News poll this month revealed extraordinary bipartisan support for President Obama’s counterterrorism policies. Seventy percent of respondents (including a majority of self-identified liberal Democrats) said they approve of keeping open the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, and 83 percent (including 77 percent of liberal Democrats) said they approve of Obama’s use of armed drone aircraft against terror suspects overseas. “It’s hard to imagine that Dems and liberals would approve of such policies in quite these numbers if they had been authored by George W. Bush,” noted The Post’s Greg Sargent.
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My Comment: Jack Goldsmith has an optimistic viewpoint on American politics and war policy. Here is my cynical prediction .... if President Obama is defeated and replaced by a Republican later this year, support for American counter-terrorism policies will revert to what it was before President Obama was elected in 2008 (i.e. strongly critical) .... followed by constant anti-war demonstrations, critical media reports, non-stop criticisms from pundits, and Congressional/Senate Democrats voicing opposition and disgust with US counter-terrorism policy and it's use of special ops and drone strikes.
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