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Massacre at Fort Hood
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... Ralph Peters, New York Post November 6, 2009 The Evil That Men Do Megan McArdle, The Atlantic America and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Jobs Numbers | Main 06 Nov 2009 01:34 pmThis was premeditated. This wasn't VBC again. That guy... ...
Anguish of Ft. Hood Attack Will Echo for Years to Come
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RECOMMENDED ARTICLES November 6, 2009 The Evil That Men Do Megan McArdle, The Atlantic America and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Jobs Numbers | Main 06 Nov 2009 01:34 pmThis was premeditated. This wasn't VBC again. That guy... ...
Fort Hood Was an Act of Terror. Period
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RECOMMENDED ARTICLES November 6, 2009 The Evil That Men Do Megan McArdle, The Atlantic America and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Jobs Numbers | Main 06 Nov 2009 01:34 pmThis was premeditated. This wasn't VBC again. That guy... ...
Anguish of Fort Hood Attack Will Echo
RealClearPolitics - Homepage —
RECOMMENDED ARTICLES November 6, 2009 The Evil That Men Do Megan McArdle, The Atlantic America and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Jobs Numbers | Main 06 Nov 2009 01:34 pmThis was premeditated. This wasn't VBC again. That guy... ...
Intellectual Bankruptcy In Reaction To Fort Hood Shooter
ParaPundit —
... brain injury. But the events at Fort Hood cast the issue even wider. According to reports, Mr. Hasan desperately wanted to avoid being deployed to a war zone. While there appeared to be several reasons for this, including a conviction that he was a victim of harassment, he was also troubled by the stories he heard from overseas. Among the reasons US Army Major Hasan didn't want to go to deploy to the Middle East: He didn't want to fight the side (Muslims) he feels loyalty toward. Megan McArdle has rendered herself incapable of learning anything from the Fort Hood shooter. This ...
"There is absolutely no political lesson to be learned from this."
Stubborn Facts —
Via Megan McArdle, who reports on an eyewitness account of the slaughter:
There is absolutely no political lesson to be learned from this. Gun control would not have stopped a commissioned officer from obtaining guns. Barack Obama had no power to stop this. Infectious PTSD is a lousy theory. And nations certainly do not--and should not--shape their foreign policy around the possibility that a random psychopath will start shooting up a crowd. Evil people do evil things. That's all.
And from the letter from the eyewitness referenced ...
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Blockhead of the week... The Evil That Men Do - Megan McArdle : ...This guy was some form of lunatic or psychopath, [There are HUNDREDS of suicidal Islamic attacks every year. Are they all "lunatics or psychopaths"? Should we treat them psychologically?] and it seems pretty clear to me at this point that he was inspired by terrorists. [He wasn't just "inspired." He lived and breathed Muslim jihadist ideology.] But there's no evidence that he was a terrorist--that is, that he was hooked into some organized network. [That's just STUPID. It's like saying you can't be a ...
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... David Ignatius, Washington Post November 6, 2009 The Evil That Men Do Megan McArdle, The Atlantic America and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Jobs Numbers | Main 06 Nov 2009 01:34 pmThis was premeditated. This wasn't VBC again. That guy... ...
