Obama Now Opposes Releasing the Detainee Abuse Photos

  The president has reversed his decision to release the photos that show alleged abuse of terrorist detainees by American troops. He now vows to fight the release of these photos, claiming that the release of these photos would further harm America’s reputation around the world.

  This is the right call and while I applaud the president for finally coming around and doing the right thing on this issue I do question his motive. I don’t think he gives a damn if the release of these photos hurts America’s image around the world. I site his decision to release the harsh interrogation memos as my evidence.

  If he cared about further hurting the United States’ image around the world he never would have agreed to release the harsh interrogation memos in the first place. He knew that releasing these memos could have a damaging effect on the United States and he did it anyway. He did it because he thought it would show the world what we did in the past and to let the world know that he is better than that and that the United States would not engage in these types of procedures any longer. So what has caused him to change his mind? What changed?

  As I wrote above, he foresaw the damaging effect that the release of the harsh interrogation memos could have on the image of the United States abroad but he thought that image would be tied to the Bush administration. What he did not see in his rashness and shortsightedness was the negative effect releasing these memos would have on his own party.

  The person that has been damaged the most by the release of the torture memos has been none other than Nancy Pelosi — a leader of the Democrat party. That is what has changed. That is why he has changed his mind

  I don’t think that the president has decided to fight the release of these photos because of the possible damage that it could do to the country. I thinkthat he is fighting the release of these photos because he doesn’t want any more attention paid to the roll that Nancy Pelosi played in the policies of the Bush administration.

  He isn’t concerned with the reputation of America, he is concerned with the reputation of Nancy Pelosi.