Art Therapy for Terrorists

          As President Obama prepares to close Gitmo, many of the terrorists are being sent to an art therapy program in Saudi Arabia.  In addition, reports indicate that Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, the underwear bomber, received material support from released Guantanamo prisoners Muhamad Attik al-Harbi, and Said Ali Shari, two graduates of the art program.

          When first told of the art therapy program for terrorists I laughed, it must be satire, such a stupid idea just could not be true.  However, NPR confirms that the underwear bomber received help from others and ABC News reports that two terrorists who provided assistance were graduates of the art program.    

          In several blog posts I’ve stated that sometimes the liberals make my job easier and this is one of those days, but I’d never even heard of Saudi Arabian liberals, much less that they would promote crayons for terrorists. 

          While the Obama administration likes to call the war on terror “Overseas Contingency Operations,” make no mistake about it, this is a war.  Today, it is a low intensity war, but what will happen when the jihadists have the weapons to directly challenge us?  For now, they poke at our weak spots, laugh at art therapy programs and bide their time. 

          President Bush speaking before the Israeli Knesset stated, “Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along."  However, he correctly pointed out, “We have an obligation to call this what it is—the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history."  The vast majority of militants will never reform and nothing demonstrates our national impotence more dramatically than releasing them from Guantanamo so they can attend art school while patting down law-abiding little old ladies in the airport.