Some of President Barack Obama’s unfulfilled promises await him. The promises will remain unfulfilled, but there must be some publicity stunt that imitates tackling and fixing these promises. Faux gun control via executive orders may have inspired the president to cry on national television, but it did not change much, if anything, in the world of guns. No one cares that zero bankers have gone to jail or that the TBTF banks have actually grown, but progressives cannot be concerned with that, just “economic inequality.” One little promise remains: closing the enemy combatant prison at Guantanamo Bay.

This is still a jewel for the Left to grasp at, and they still support it. They support even releasing these men despite many of them returning to a life of jihad. An updated report put the recidivism at roughly 1-in-5 released prisoners. This is part of the true split of Left and Right. The Left is for chaos and disorder, while the Right is about order. The Left cannot grasp the need for special institutions to face this threat because the threat is part of their chaos game. The Left cannot back off of their calls for closing it a decade ago because it has become a part of their holiness game.

While President George W. Bush was a progressive in Republican attire, the creation of the Gitmo prison infrastructure was an attempt to manufacture order out of the chaos of fighting terrorists. It was a response to new warfare. The Geneva Conventions did allow for armies to execute non-uniformed combatants immediately. This was a leftover from when the Germans were taking potshots from random snipers in wars of old. How does a military handle non-uniformed fighters of value?

The problem with fighting a terror network and handling captured terrorist fighters was that they could provide valuable human intelligence about a threat that the U.S. had very little information but was suddenly fighting. They could be interrogated for immediate intelligence, in order to thwart any potential follow-up attacks after 9/11, as well as filling out the network that, to the U.S., looked rather empty. Guantanamo was a simple concentration of the terrorists picked up around the globe.

The amazing thing about the Left was that despitealways wanting to see the Constitution as a living document, which allows their trained judges to make things up as they go, the Left clung to the Geneva Conventions. The media dutifully showed video images of terrorists kneeling in red suits. This was a moral outrage. Once the outrage bit was out there, the Left and their foot soldiers had a talking point to rally around. They could claim moral superiority while never considering the threat that releasing these enemy combatants and terrorists posed. Once there was a  possibility for virtue signaling their holiness by being kind or good to men who shot at American soldiers, the left charged forward, national security be damned. Good nations do not do this!

This also reveals the Left’s love of chaos or willful ignorance to security threats. This was also reflected a decade ago with their approach towards terror as if it were crime. John Kerry even mentioned this conceptual grasp of terrorism in the 2004 election. There are similarities between, say, the Mob and a terror network, but the fat tail risk of large attacks makes it different. To give the Left the benefit of the doubt momentarily, there is an argument with regards to terror in importance and to treat it procedurally. This reveals the weaker Left problem of seeing it purely on the crime basis. This will eventually get to sociological excuses. This is the underlying basis for Marie Harf saying that the U.S. could defeat ISIS with jobs. This is their ideology.

The darker interpretation is that the released prisoners can create more terror, and the chaos feeds the system’s need. Chaos creates a need for a police state to control a population. There is chaos for broken people as collateral damage for social work, and of course, more programs and aid to prevent little terrorists from growing up. The Left will not pause to consider the idea of releasing Islamic ideological warriors into the American federal prison population, which already has enough black Muslim converts. Import the chaos for more leftist designed solutions. How much is terribly idiotic worldview and how much is nefarious desires for control? We will never know but it gets clearer and clearer that the two parts need each other.

The Left’s obsession with closing Gitmo has no reasoning besides ‘being good.’ There is no attempt to understand why it is used, just that it is bad and needs closing. It is the right thing to do. It is the moral thing to do. There is no logic, as it has become a religious tenet to the progressive faith.