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" ...remember to call it a terrorist attack!"

No. Terrorism is the act of using indiscriminate violence to inflict a psychological toll on your enemy. It's a tool for magnifying the actual damage. The sum is greater than the parts, in other words.

Certainly the 9/11 attacks were terrorism: 19 bad guys shut down transportation and paralyzed the country with effects that reverberate to this day. Certainly the Beltway Sniper shootings were terrorism: an entire region lived in fear throughout the weeks that Muhummad and Malvo were picking off their victims.

I'm no defender of Hasan, but it's not clear to me that he intended to strike fear into anyone's heart beyond the folks in his cross-hairs.

Let's not be quick to call every bad act--even bad acts by shrieking bloodthirsty Muslims--terrorism.

What this was was jihad. Terrorism is one tool of jihad. This wasn't terrorism. This was a bid for martyrdom by slaughtering the infidels Hasan felt were invading Muslim lands, and nothing more.

Horsesh!t.

Terrorism is the intentional use of violence toward an unarmed population for the sake of a political ideology.

Since Islam is a political ideology that was not only openly embraced by the shooter, he was also wrongfully proselytizing it toward his patients and even promoting it in his presentations to medical staff.

You are clearly the type that thinks Islam is nothing more than a religious preference, when in reality it is a legal system (Sharia) and political ideology as well.

Certainly the Fort Hood shooting was terrorism: 1 bad guy shut down the entire Nation's military communities with increased force protection measures, and paralyzed the military with effects that will reverberate for quite some time despite the whitewash and falsehoods oozing out of the hierarchy. Certainly the Fort Hood shooting was terrorism: the entire Army community now lives with anger, frustration and distrust throughout the weeks/months and potential years after Hasan shot several great Americans dead.