Posted on 11/23/2009 2:48:52 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
It's both amusing and educational to observe a consensus when it suddenly starts to give way at all points without yielding an inch. A couple of weeks ago, the consoling view was that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was a man more to be pitied than feared, a full-blown officer in the U.S. armed forces who was too shaken up by the stories of returned veterans to be able to function properly, and a physician too stressed-out to bear in mind that there was such a thing as a Hippocratic oath. Why, even the FBI had interpreted his e-mails to Anwar al-Awlaki as quite "consistent with research being conducted by Maj. Hasan in his position as a psychiatrist at the Walter Reed Medical Center."
That latter finding does not stack up very well with the disclosure that the major was imploring Awlaki's spiritual advice some time before the online imam issued a finding of his own to the effect that bullets discharged at American soldiers were fired in a holy cause. The Washington Post and ABC News, which drew well ahead of the consensus in their reporting, also unearthed e-mails from Hasan to the Yemen-based preacher, asking when jihad tactics might be justified, what were the circumstances that would license the killing of innocent bystanders, and expressing the hope that the e-mailer and his respondent might one day be united in paradise.(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
Even with a full blown case of BDS, Hitchens ‘gets it’.
The Lib’s world is crumbling under the steady assault of reality. Consider them the crazy aunt in the family that our mothers implored us to placate and pander to at the family reunion. Well we are way past the point that is considered prudent, cuz the crazy bitch just tried to set fire to the house, bring on the straight jackets.
Excellent. Hitchens gets it completely right this time.
Good article.
What is this idiot Robert Wright (mentioned in the article) smoking?
It did not “cause” it, but merely “made it possible” by discouraging action that should have been taken.
Hasan is nothing but a durn murdering terrorist and he needs a military trial and be rolled up to the wall before a firing squad.
parsy, who is all for sending him to Paradise ASAP.
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