Why there will be more. If we couldn’t fix all of this suicidal multi-culturalism and political correctness in the military during the Bush administration, it’s hard to be very optimistic about doing it now. There was reportedly an interview by a CNN reporter who asked a military wife how she felt about her husband being deployed to Afghanistan. “At least he’ll be safe there, and able to shoot back,” she said.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Whatever happened to “connecting the dots“? If this is the best we’re willing to do, prepare for another 911.
[Update early afternoon]
I don’t often agree with David Brooks, but he has this spot on — The National Rush To Therapy:
There was a national rush to therapy. Hasan was a loner who had trouble finding a wife and socializing with his neighbors.
This response was understandable. It’s important to tamp down vengeful hatreds in moments of passion. But it was also patronizing. Public commentators assumed the air of kindergarten teachers who had to protect their children from thinking certain impermissible and intolerant thoughts. If public commentary wasn’t carefully policed, the assumption seemed to be, then the great mass of unwashed yahoos in Middle America would go off on a racist rampage.
Worse, it absolved Hasan — before the real evidence was in — of his responsibility. He didn’t have the choice to be lonely or unhappy. But he did have a choice over what story to build out of those circumstances. And evidence is now mounting to suggest he chose the extremist War on Islam narrative that so often leads to murderous results.
The conversation in the first few days after the massacre was well intentioned, but it suggested a willful flight from reality. It ignored the fact that the war narrative of the struggle against Islam is the central feature of American foreign policy. It ignored the fact that this narrative can be embraced by a self-radicalizing individual in the U.S. as much as by groups in Tehran, Gaza or Kandahar.
It denied, before the evidence was in, the possibility of evil. It sought to reduce a heinous act to social maladjustment. It wasn’t the reaction of a morally or politically serious nation.
It’s sadly ironic and amusing, as always, that such sentiments come from people who delude themselves that they’re part of the “reality-based community.” A culture that won’t defend its values or itself is doomed to lose to one that will.
I heard today that the base was aware that Hasan bought the guns. And the FBI was a;ready watching his contact with Imam Kokamamie (sp) (pronunciation) in the Middle East. (Or the intel was the other way…)
But there was no contact between the two agencies.
Hmmm, is it me, or does that sound oddly familiar? And wasn’t this what was NEVER supposed to happen EVER again, post the 9/11 Commission?
It ignored the fact that the war narrative of the struggle against Islam is the central feature of American foreign policy.
That’s the narrative we’ve chosen; we could choose another. Jihadists are fortunately not in a position to force their narrative onto us.
Jihadists are fortunately not in a position to force their narrative onto us.
I’m not sure that’s fortunate. In fact, I’m sure it’s not. If they forced their narrative on us, we might realize that they are at war with us. Currently, we continue to ignore that fact, and we just took a lot of casualties last week out of such willful ignorance.
This is quite possibly the dumbest thing you’ve ever said. We’re just days after Hasan yelled “Allah Akhbar” and opened fire, and less than a decade from 9/11, and you think the self-declared Jihadists can’t force a narrative? This is their narrative.
America is at war with Jihadists because Jihadists declared war on us. What other possible narrative do you suggest?
Jim wishes to remain in the unreality-based community.
“Hasan was a loner who had trouble finding a wife and socializing with his neighbors.”
This is a problem not just here but all over the world for Muslims. They must marry virgins and they must be the same sect and they are usually sold by their parents to successful Muslims or at least those that can contribute to the family. I read a book that says that the lack of respect but the overwhelming want of females is one of the real reasons for Muslim rancor. That and their Islamic faith.
Brock is correct. But he left out millions of other Muslims who are quite willing in the meantime to try and change our laws, out breed us, use our laws against us and other wise subvert our Republic and make it into an Islamic Nation.
Papa Ray
Central Texas
The issues go beyond the inability to find a virgin female from your tribe….
Most Muslim nations practice polygamy. The idle happy US male then pauses and wonders what it would be like to have multiple wives, but the reality is the ~50-50 ratio still holds. So the rich 1% get many many wives and the bottom 25% get none. In a monogamous society the rich handsome, well connected males can only legitimately take one female off the market. From the female perspective its better to have 2% of a Bill Gates than it is to have 100% of a truck driver. As a result polygamy is inherently unstable, it breeds a whole troop of dissatisfied males that have no legitimate prospect to reproduce and can be reprogramed to do anything… IE blow oneself up for the fictitious promise of 72 virgins.
This also makes me worried about the current state of China with the one child selective abortions and infanticide leading to a gender unbalanced society. What ever veneer of civility one chooses to put on things one can not deny that the biologically driven desire to reproduce (or at least practice a lot) is one of the stronger drives in human society. When this natural drive is thwarted bad things happen. This drive has been subverted for other purposes throughout history, just look at the teenage zulu warriors in Africa.
This incident has at least told us how valuable “diversity” is. According to General Casey, the fact that 13 were killed is bad, but limiting “diversity” in the military “would be worse.”
The bastard actually said that.
Jim, Hasan told us the narrative before he forced it on us:
We love death more than you love life.