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The Hole at the Heart of Our Strategy by Mark Steyn on National Review Online
hirteen dead and 31 wounded would be a bad day for the U.S. military in Afghanistan, and a great victory for the Taliban. When it happens in Texas, in the heart of the biggest military base in the nation, at a processing center for soldiers either returning from or deploying to combat overseas, ...
The Hole at the Heart of Our Strategy -- By: Mark Steyn
article.nationalreview.com — T hirteen dead and 31 wounded would be a bad day for the U.S. military in Afghanistan,... and a great victory for the Taliban. When it happens in Texas, in the heart of the biggest military base in the nation, at a processing center for soldiers either ... (more) The Hole at the Heart of Our Strategy -- By: Mark Steyn
Steyn on Obamacare
commonsensewonder.blogspot.com — From Mark Steyn : I don't like to say I told you so, but I've been saying... for months now that the trick is to drag this thing across the finish line with 50.0000000000001 percent of the vote as soon as possible. From my "Happy Warrior" column in NR back in July: Obama believes in “the ... (more) Steyn on Obamacare
Mark Steyn: Shooter exposes hole in U.S. terror strategy
ocregister.com — Same ideological pathologies that drive al-Qaida overpowered Hasan's American identity.... (more) Mark Steyn: Shooter exposes hole in U.S. terror strategy
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Mark, It’s Not Going To Be That Easy
Daily PunditThe Hole at the Heart of Our Strategy by Mark Steyn on National Review Online That’s true, in a very narrow sense: Major Hasan is not a card-carrying member of the Texas branch of al-Qaeda reporting to a control officer in Yemen or Waziristan. If he were, things would be a lot easier. But the pathologies that drive al-Qaeda beat within Major Hasan too, and in the end his Islamic impulses trumped his expensive Western education, his psychiatric training, his military discipline — his entire American identity. One might say the same about Faleh Hassan ...

Ft. Hood: What Do We Do Now?
Blogs For Victory — Mark Steyn takes note of our bizarre way of dealing with things like the attack at Ft. Hood: …Major Hasan is not a card-carrying member of the Texas branch of al-Qaeda reporting to a control officer in Yemen or Waziristan. If he were, things would be a lot easier. But the pathologies that drive al-Qaeda beat within Major Hasan too, and in the end his Islamic impulses trumped his expensive Western education, his psychiatric training, his military discipline — his entire American identity. One might say the same about Faleh Hassan Almaleki of Glendale, ...

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