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RT @rabfel: I just read a great article by Charles Krauthammer. He is ON! This man always drives the message home! http://bit.ly/72gds 7 days ago |
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Blue Crab Boulevard Summum nec metuas diem, nec optes – Marcus Valerius Martialis Proxies Charles Krauthammer . Go read it. categories War | Gaius November 13, 2009 No Comments No comments yet. RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI Leave a comment *Name *Email (not published) Website RSS Entries RSS | Comments RSS November 2009 M T W T F S S Oct 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 ...
Let's not medicalize mass murder
Betsy's Page —
Charles Krauthammer is outraged at the attempts to find a psychiatric motive for Nidal Hasan's spraying unarmed men and women at Fort Hood with bullets. In a rush to avoid the apparently clear conclusion that Hasan's descent into mass murder was part of an Islamicist desire to kill American soldiers, the media and some psychiatrists have tried to diagnose a new disease pre-traumatic stress disorder that Hasan suffered from having listened to tales of stress from his patients returning from the battlefield. But, of course, if the shooter is named Nidal Hasan, who National Public ...
Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos —
... Charles Krauthammer: That guy at Fort Hood? He's a Muslim terrorist!!!! Don't you people understand??!!?!?!!! I dopn't have to wait for stinking facts or a wussy invioestigation. I know!!~ ...
Krauthammer: Why Can't We Just Say That the Problem Is Islam ++ Americans For Peace Now's Short History Of Israeli Right-wing Terrorism
TPMCafe —
... I'll get right to his column today which is a diatribe against the media for not attributing the actions of the Fort Hood killer to his religion. Actually, I have noticed no such reluctance. There is hardly a story about Nidal Hassan that does not mention his adherence to the most extreme and violent strains of Islam. And that is the way it should be. His views matter so do their source. ...
Krauthammer: Why Can't We Just Say That the Problem Is Islam
TPMCafe —
... I'll get right to his column today which is a diatribe against the media for not attributing the actions of the Fort Hood killer to his religion. Actually, I have noticed no such reluctance. There is hardly a story about Nidal Hassan that does not mention his adherence to the most extreme and violent strains of Islam. And that is the way it should be. His views matter so do their source. ...
Tracing the Connections: Demonizing "The Other" and U.S. Foreign Policy
Once Upon a Time... —
... That was true of the earlier example I discussed, and it is true of this Charles Krauthammer column. As a preliminary matter, we should recall that Krauthammer is a self-confessed monster, one who announces that we must adopt tactics that we ourselves view as evil -- but that we must do so because our enemies are subhuman to a degree that forces us to do so. The monstrous tactic in that case was torture. See, " ...
No More Mister Nice Blog — ... In today's Washington Post, Charles Krauthammer writes pretty much the column you'd expect him to write aboutmedia coverage of the Fort Hood shooting -- but this paragraph jumped out at me: ...
Shrinking The Psychiatrist: The Ongoing Case of Dr. Nidal Malik Hasan
The New Republic blogs —
Major Hasan has been charged in court martial proceedings with 13 acts of murder. He may be charged with a 14th killing since one of his victims, Francheska Velez, was pregnant. Will any of my friends sympathetic to abortion object if this fetus turns out to have been killed? Well, you get the point. Another diversion will come when, as is likely, the prosecution asks for the death penalty. Myself, I'd rather forego capital punishment than get the country dragged into one of those hysterical side shows. If it turns out that his terrorist romp was linked to others in the religious mass murder business his trial would probably go into the civilian criminal justice system. Either way, I believe, ...
Krauthammer: Medicalizing Mass Murder
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
Washington Post:
What a surprise — that someone who shouts “Allahu Akbar” (the “God is great” jihadist battle cry) as he is shooting up a room of American soldiers might have Islamist motives. It certainly was a surprise to the mainstream media, which spent the weekend after the Fort Hood massacre playing down Nidal Hasan’s religious beliefs.
“I cringe that he’s a Muslim. . . . I think he’s probably just a nut case,” said Newsweek’s Evan Thomas. Some were more adamant. Time’s Joe Klein decried “odious attempts by Jewish extremists . . . to argue that the massacre ...
Fort Hood shrinkwrapped...
small dead animals —
November 13, 2009 Fort Hood shrinkwrapped... ...and Krauthammered . More . Posted by Mark at November 13, 2009 7:57 PM Comments Post a comment Before submitting, review the post to ensure your comment is on topic and does not contain words that might get caught in the spam filter (eg: insurance, viagra, online, poker). This is not a forum or a repository for off-topic link dumps. Profanity is discouraged. Take your extended debates and/or flamewars to private email. Thankyou. Name: Email Address: URL: Remember personal info? Yes No Comments:
Media Continues To Ignore The Obvious In Ft. Hood Murders
QandO —
Charles Krauthammer takes on the developing media spin about Ft. Hood murders.
That, of course, is that Hasan’s religion had nothing to do with any of this – instead he had just heard so much from returning vets that he “snapped”. He, in effect, developed secondary PTSD. Says Krauthammer:
Really? What about the doctors and nurses, the counselors and physical therapists at Walter Reed Army Medical Center who every day hear and live with the pain and the suffering of returning soldiers? How many of them then picked up a gun and shot 51 innocents?
And what about civilian psychiatrists — not the Upper West ...
