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Defend America on Saturday, November 07, 2009 9:11:15 AM
The Hole at the Heart of Our Strategy
We’re scrupulously non-judgmental about the ideology that drives terrorism.
By Mark Steyn
Thirteen
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, it is not merely a “tragedy” (as too many people
called it) but a glimpse of a potentially fatal flaw at the heart of
what we have called, since 9/11, the “War on Terror.” Brave soldiers
trained to hunt down and kill America’s enemy abroad were killed in the
safety and security of home by, in essence, the same enemy — a man who
believes in and supports everything the enemy does.
And he’s a U.S. Army major.
And
his superior officers and other authorities knew about his beliefs but
seemed to think it was just a bit of harmless multicultural diversity —
as if believing that “the Muslims should stand up and fight against the
aggressor” (i.e., his fellow American soldiers) and writing Internet
paeans to the “noble” “heroism” of suicide bombers and, indeed,
objectively supporting the other side in an active war is to be regarded as just some kind of alternative lifestyle that adds to the general vibrancy of the base.
When it emerged early on Thursday afternoon that the
shooter was Nidal Malik Hasan, there appeared shortly thereafter on
Twitter a flurry of posts with the striking formulation: “Please judge
Major Malik Nadal [sic] by his actions and not by his name.”
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