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politics.theatlantic.com - 10 days ago

The Best Speech Obama's Given Since...Maybe Ever

— politics.theatlantic.com — Today, at Ft. Hood. I guarantee: they'll be teaching this one in rhetoric classes. It was that good. My gloss won't do it justice. Yes, I'm having a Chris Matthews-chill-running-up-my-leg moment, but sometimes, the man, the moment and the words come ... (more) The Best Speech Obama's Given Since...Maybe Ever

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boomantribune.com - 11 days ago

The Cost of Choosing Endless War

— boomantribune.com — Ft. Hood has exposed a terrible wound in the fabric of America, but that wound was there long before a lone gunman named Major Hassan decided to go postal on his fellow soldiers. Our ethical and moral values have been obliterated since September 11, ... (more) The Cost of Choosing Endless War

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mudvillegazette.com - 16 days ago

Plan B

— mudvillegazette.com — Al Jazeera : Hamid Karzai listened to a mixture of congratulations and straight talking down the telephone from President Obama on Monday just hours after Mr. Karzai was declared the winner of the Afghan elections by default. President Obama made clear what the United States expects.  ... (more) Plan B

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Bigoted Religious Extremists
Swampland — ... by Martin Peretz and this one by La Pasionaria of the Neocons, to argue that the massacre perpetrated by Nidal Hasan was somehow a direct consequence of his Islamic beliefs as opposed to a direct consequence of his insanity. To be sure, extreme religious beliefs and violent insanity are not mutually exclusive. Indeed, they tend to track--among fanatics of all religions. There was, for example, the lunatic Jewish settler, Baruch Goldstein, who opened fire on Muslims praying at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron in 1994, killing 24 and wounding more than 100. There was also ...

Evidence Mounts Fort Hood Shooter Is Ordinary Mass Murderer
Doug Ross @ Journal — ... who said they heard Major Nidal Malik Hasan cry "Allahu Akbar!" before going on his shooting rampage, killing thirteen and wounding 30 more. They now believe Hasan, an atheist of Iranian-Jewish descent, was actually shouting "Oy Vey Halvah," and amid the ensuing panic and confusion the phrase was misinterpreted by scores of combat-ready soldiers. MSNBC's Rachel Maddow quotes the FBI agent in charge of the inquiry, Ahmed Faisal, as saying, "we are now confident that Hasan's CTRL + Click to follow link" color="#800000">faith played absolutely no ole in his state of mind leading ...

amabO Committed Murder at Fort Hood
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — ... terror or associate it with Islam. What cowards we are. Political correctness killed those patriotic Americans at Ft. Hood as surely as the Islamist gunman did. And the media treat it like a case of non-denominational shoplifting. This was a terrorist act. When an extremist plans and executes a murderous plot against our unarmed soldiers to protest our efforts to counter Islamist fanatics, it’s an act of terror. Period. I suppose we can all start by Playing Dumb. Listen, ignoring reality and feigning indifference to the views ...