RSSTerrible Terror, Terrible Terrorist: Part One
Gene Lalor | November 9, 2009
Though it was in full swing prior to 9/11/2001, few Americans paid much attention to the reality of terroristic activity around the globe.
In the intervening 8 years, after a flurry of outrage and alarm, and two ongoing wars, many of us–too many of us–have retreated into a comfortable cocoon of terrorism-denial.
With mushrooming unemployment and with so many other personal and domestic problems on our plates, why bother worrying ourselves over something we can’t individually do anything about?
That denial, that gut refusal to come to terms with the truth that America is engaged in a worldwide struggle against the Islamic jihad, is almost as dangerous as the terrorism itself.
One individual who has adopted a blase’ demeanor toward the all-important issue is our terrorism-averse president who also happens to be the Commander-in-Chief of our armed forces, our chief line of defense from enemy attack.
Obama campaigned against the Iraq War, banned “harsh” interrogation techniques to elicit life-saving information from prisoners, promised to shutter GITMO, and banned the use of the term War on Terror.
Mr. President, point of information: Ignoring the threat of continuing terrorism and, worse, minimizing it to the point of absurdity, won’t make it go away.
I’ve long suspected the motivations of President Obama and his administration, whether involving the economy which they’re assiduously driving into a sewer or health care or climate change or international relations.
All of those policies suggest that the Obamians seem to have an agenda that’s beyond comprehension or rationale.
Unless, that is, they’re intent on destroying the United States as we’ve always known it.
Nowhere is that intent more transparent than in the administration’s approach to the single most conspicuous threat to America’s well-being and survival, Islamic terrorism and its potential to wreak immeasurable harm and devastation on the country.
Obama altered his original response of “frightening insensitivity,” as it was described by NBC, http://bit.ly/2zn2m6, to the massacre at Fort Hood. He followed that insensitivity by cautioning the country about “jumping to conclusions,” which he followed with a studied pretense of actual interest in the dead and wounded.
He still has failed to publically confront the evolving details on just who United States Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, 
the alleged murderer, actually is.
We already have a number of clues as to what he believes and what he is not.
Hasan is apparently on the road to recovery at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. His 13 murder victims await burial. Of the 30 soldiers and civilians he wounded last Thursday, 28 remain hospitalized.
Among the facts we know about Hasan is that he was born and raised in Virginia, he was a quiet, unassuming Army psychiatrist, he was unmarried although he may have two young sons, he gained his medical degree thanks to the U.S. government, and he didn’t wish to be deployed to war zones.
The most pertinent facts we know about Major Hasan, which relate to what he believes, is that he is a Muslim and a self-proclaimed Palestinian.
Hasan’s committed, Islamic beliefs are at the crux of who he really is and why he chose to discharge some hundred rounds into a crowd of innocent victims.
Those same beliefs should waken America’s leader to the reality that the nation is at war, but don’t hold your breath expecting reality to register in Washington.
See Part Two to follow.
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