The Ft. Hood Backlash
“We’ve seen the enemy and the enemy is us.”
Listening to Armstrong and Getty this morning about the Ft. Hood massacre by Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan it continues to amaze one that the chief concern of the MSM and even the U.S. Army continues to be an expected backlash against Muslims. As Joe Getty opined, “We’re more concerned with people feeling uncomfortable than with this guy who murdered 13 American soldiers.” U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey apparently went on the Sunday talk shows with concerns not that the U.S. Army had apparently been infiltrated by a radical Muslim with alleged Al Qaeda ties, but with this so-called “backlash against Muslim soldiers,” a backlash which needless to say, has given no evidence of materializing as of yet. As Jack Armstrong asserted, this guy needs to step down. “Where’s all the hard asses?” he asked. You’d expect such comments from a college professor, but from the Army Chief of Staff? About the only rational explanation for Casey’s ridiculous comment would be that it was a talking point from his boss, the Commander in Chief, who doesn’t want to upset our so-called Muslim allies in Pakistan and elsewhere in the Muslim world. Just following orders, are we?
Meanwhile, the MSM keeps bringing up PTSD as an excuse for the Ft. Hood terrorist’s actions, as Steve Roberts, husband of Cokie, was on the Sunday talk show circuit talking up the PTSD angle. Some lies never seem to die. Never mind that our terrorist psychiatrist had links to Al Qaeda, which the Army apparently knew about. Never mind that he shouted “Alahu Akbar!” as he opened fire on his fellow American soldiers or that he’d continuously praised Muslim terrorists while condemning America.
Paraphrasing Mark Steyn’s thesis in America Alone, Getty concluded that a winning, aggressive ideology always wins over a retreating, apologetic ideology. “We’re doomed,” he said. “We’re doomed!” A caller to the show really hit the veritable nail on the head when he commented that the Ft. Hood backlash concern was all due to PC: “We’re terrified of speaking the truth in public!” Yes, this is all about political correctness and multiculturalism. Chalk up another 13 casualties to PC. Our younger generation of twenty and thirty somethings, Obama voters by and large who’ve been indoctrinated in school and college by PC, have even had the instinct and will to survive bred out of them. “We’ve seen the enemy and the enemy is us.” We are our own worst enemy, if we cannot even recognize the enemy that wants to destroy us within and without our nation. As historian Arnold Toynbee famously observed: “Civilizations die from suicide, not murder.” Or as another well-known historian, Will Durant, has said, “A great civilization is not destroyed from without until it has destroyed itself from within.”
Update:
As another example of the disconnect between the MSM/Political Class vs. the American public, according to Rasmussen Reports (“60% Want Fort Hood Shooting Investigated as Terrorist”):
As on many issues, there is a wide gap between the Political Class and Mainstream Americans. Sixty-nine percent (69%) of Mainstream Americans want the shooting investigated as a terrorist act while 51% of the Political Class want civilian authorities to handle it as a criminal investigation.
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Projection much?
I don’t see how civilian authorities can be involved at all. It happened on a military base, the suspect was a member of the military so I’m pretty sure this will all be handled internally in a military court. As far as investigating it as a terrorist act goes, I doubt they will find any co-conspirators or leads to other organized terrorist plots. There’s probably a lot to learn, however, on how to predict and prevent future attacks like this and that is something that should definitely be done.
Thanks for pointing that out. It looks like the pollsters didn’t frame the question correctly because I think you’re right: it stands to reason that this case will be handled in a military court. That said, I think what the pollster was driving at was whether or not the respondents viewed the “shooting” as a terrorist act or as a criminal act of murder.
I saw it described this morning as “lone-wolf” terrorism and that description fits well enough. I think they were right to not jump to conclusions right after the shooting but within 24 hours it was clear what motivated the shooter. There was no “post traumatic stress disorder” that caused the shooter to go berserk. Hell, he’d never even been deployed, how could he have PTSD?
As I see it, the MSM avoided linking Hasan’s act with terrorism, or even mentioning that he was a radical Muslim, long after it had become apparent that he was in fact a radical Muslim who had committed a terrorist act at a US Army base.
The PC authorities can’t seem to understand that someone commit an act of terrorism without being a member of a terrorist cell. Many radical Muslims, such as the imam Awlaki that Hasan emailed, are encouraging this sort of action. Hasan may have been a lone wolf but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t a terrorist.
General Casey’s words accurately reflect the problem of PC thought. I don’t see that diversity creates a more effective Army, anyway.
“I don’t see that diversity creates a more effective Army, anyway.”
Yes, I little knowledge of Roman history should make that fact quite apparent!
If that doesn’t suffice, there’s always the Persian army invasion of ancient Greece, a diverse force if there ever was one.