Fort Hood—A now familiar horror

Pajamas Media ^ | November 6 | Victor Davis Hanson

[AJKauf]

News accounts are spotty; emotions run high; reliable information is rare; rumor abounds. Nevertheless, what are we to make of Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan’s horrific rampage at Ft. Hood, Texas, where in cold-blooded fashion he murdered 12, and wounded at least 31?

I think on the one hand we will see the familiar therapeutic exegesis, in which we hear of traumatic stress syndrome, justified and principled opposition to the Iraq and Afghan wars, generic mental illness, anger at being deployed overseas, or maltreatment from fellow soldiers due to his Muslim faith and various other efforts to “contextualize” the violence. (I am watching Major Hasan’s cousin on the news right now [I think], on spec, explain that the otherwise normal killer was a victim of bias and was ill at ease with firearms (after shooting over 40 victims and surviving the carnage). I cannot imagine the trauma of family members of the dead hearing such sentiments aired, or knowing that the killer apparently had voiced prior extremist sympathies.

On the other hand, one could instead see Hasan in a long line of killers and would-be murderers of the last decade that in some loose way express an Islamic anger at either American culture or the United States government or both, as a way of elevating their own sense of failure into some sort of legitimate cosmic jihad....

[flying_bullet]

While this war is on, we need to discharge all Muslims from the Armed Forces. Not interning. Honorable discharge.

It's a rational first step.

The Constitution isn't a suicide pact. Protect our armed forces.

[yorkie01]

I think that we can thank the democrats for their 2009 weakening of the FISA Act and zero’s selling out of America.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***as a way of elevating their own sense of failure into some sort of legitimate cosmic jihad....***

I believe the muslim shooter on the Empire State building and the LAX shooter were both failures in their businesses.

So they took it out on innocent people. How many others are there that we never know about?

[Louis Foxwell]

Thge notion that a “principled” opposition to war is motivation for immoral butchery is ridiculous.

[klb99]

I am so SICK of these people and their phony religion.....get them all out of our military NOW and I say practicing Islam in this country should be illegal and all Muslims here should be sent to Muslim countries. I don’t care if they’ve been here for generations. The Constitution is not a suicide pact and we are NOT obligated to allow the free practice of a philosophy that calls for our death and destruction. How much longer are we as a country going to pussyfoot around this issue???? Islam and western civilization are INCOMPATIBLE............

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

They died to provide amusement for Moslem’s-Paraphrasing Oswald Spengler.