For those who can still put two and two together, the Ft. Hood killings look like the beginning of a long term bloodletting in our country, an unnecessary travail we will be forced to suffer unless we reverse US foreign policy blunders.
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That no end is now in sight is made clear with the contorted spin placed on the Ft. Hood murders by the administration and both liberal and neo-conservative policy makers. On the one hand, Hasan is explained away as disturbed individual, a loner having professional problems acting out of personal distress. End of story. On the other, he is an 'Islamo-fascist' who, like all extremist Muslims, "attack us for who we are". Both explanations are self-serving and miss the mark completely. As neither account for the real, and obvious, reasons the Ft., Hood attack is likely to be only the beginning of our troubles at home.
We expect leadership from Washington but instead get double-talk, couched in high language yes, but nonetheless vapid explanations. Like Bush before him President Obama cynically avoids the truth about this cultural, religious and territorial conflict. Instead, he was "baffled as the rest of the country by the bloody burst of violence", saying "[w]e cannot fully know what leads a man to do such a thing," (ABC news, Nov. 8).
Oh really? Can the President not know that in matters of culture and religion Islam and Western secular society are at immutable loggerheads? Our own divisive social issues revolving around gender, sex and family are completely condemned in Islamic societies and there is outright rejection of our attempt to force our idea of women’s rights, abortion, homosexuality and the like down their throats. And, to boot, it is our armies which have invaded their countries. With the situation reversed who would not expect that Americans would attack enemy forces, even in their home countries, if the opportunity existed? Murderous yes, but under such conditions to say that Hassan’s act was one of “twisted logic” is ludicrous. .
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Taking correct stock of why a crime is committed is the first important step in solving a mystery and in resolving a conflict. Our current leadership, however, not only avoids taking a hard look in the mirror to ask why we are hated and why our military should be sent abroad but fabricates either politically correct nonsense or myopic hysteria. Who can doubt the outcome when Obama ignores the underlying cause of the conflicts?
This includes the more than 700,000 people who have been killed in
Iraq and Afghanistan since Sept 11, 2001 (http://www.unknownnews.net/casualties.html ), surely fair recompense in blood lust for the 3000 Americans murdered that day should one want to barter lives in such fashion. And though the American public was shocked that 13 fellow Americans were killed at Ft. Hood the deaths do not match the tragedy of the many more Muslims killed in our imperial war. Of course Muslims know this and, to our disadvantage, that knowledge is more than sufficient catalyst and reason, even absent religous fervor, for many to try and strike back.To say that the Ft. Hood attack is inexplicable and that such acts will not deter us from the job that needs to be done in foreign countries, as Ob
ama says, only supplies political strychnine to the US public. It encourages us to continue to view the US dead, small in number by comparison, as having more value than the dead Muslims and fosters the idea that the ‘enemy’ must pay even more. In practical terms, unless we fully lose our souls and turn full score to a war of genocidal annihilation, it is a losing proposition in a world with a Muslim population of 1.4 billion.Our media, political and many military leaders are complicit in this façade. Ready to explain away the acts of
Hasan, and others to come, on personal trauma and psychosis this reasoning is as fallacious and dangerous as Bush’s pronouncement that we were hated for our lifestyle. In a world governed largely by US and western military and cultural imperialism such statements can be likened to driving a car off a winding mountain road all the while declaring it's clear sailing straight ahead.In plain fact, our foreign policy is both harmful to our interests and morally repugnant.
At times a glimmer of truth is seen amongst this verbal debris. "Rather, they have come to believe that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused in the shootings, acted out under a welter of emotional, ideological and religious pressures, according to interviews with federal officials who have been briefed on the inquiry. Investigators have not ruled out the possibility that Major Hasan believed he was carrying out an extremist’s suicide attack.”
Of course he was. And some analysts do get it. "Clearly I think it was a terrorist act, whether he was connected to another group or not or a formal group is question we'll find out over the next couple of days," said Michael Scheuer, the former head of the CIA's Bin Laden unit. (Fox News 11/7). Such voices as Scheuer’s, however, are few in number.
Instead, we see more of the equally fallacious counter-arguments that crazed Islamo-facists are acting without reason, an idea propounded by Dorothy Rabanowitz (WSJ 11/10) who rightly took Dr. Phil to task for his psycho-babble explanations:
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"A shocked Dr. Phil, appalled that the guest had publicly mentioned Maj. Hasan's Islamic identity, went on to present what was, in essence, the case for Maj. Hasan as victim. Victim of deployment, of the Army, of the stresses of a new kind of terrible war unlike any other we have known. Unlike, can he have meant, the kind endured by those lucky Americans who fought and died at Iwo Jima, say, or the Ardennes?"
Mocking Dr. Phil for his puffery was justified but neo-conservatives accept, even applaud, worldwide US meddling in other countries’ affairs and expect, foolishly, such acts to be accepted by the people there. Theirs is hubris on a grand scale with
all trace of self-examination, replaced by self-delusion, absent. It is telling that Rabanowitz and others in that madhouse never expound on what we would do if our religion, people and country were under an imperial boot.And there is the argument of
many like Major Coughlin, a defense department analyst and cause-celeb of those who want all out war against 'Islamo-fascists', recently removed from his position because he pointed out the obligatory requirement in Islamic Law to wage jihad when non-Muslim forces enter Muslim lands. His reasoning is sound, up to a point, that jihad is required to expel the invaders. But why does he neglect to mention that all patriots, no matter the nation, are expected expel foreign invaders? Instead, he promotes the false argument of our right to an American empire and, as such, the need to confront a 'global jihad'. Michael Scheuer, in his book Imperial Hubris, made mincemeat of such ideas, explaining that something much simpler is at work in the Islamic world- a defensive Jihad against our imperialism.One can look at recent statements by the Taliban in
Afghanistan or, as distasteful as it may be, the statements by some US-based Muslims to find confirmation of this view. Following recent public discussion in the US about the wisdom of keeping our troops in Afghanistan the Taliban quickly stated their goal was only to expel the invaders from their country and they had no designs to export their struggle beyond the border. The statement was just as quickly ignored by the US. And sympathetic Muslims in the US who applauded the Hood attacks as a way to stop the US from sending troops abroad said nothing about forcing Islam on the US. The same can obviously not be said of our foreign policy.The solution
: Stop our hubristic and bloody meddling in other countries.
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This incident is very fishy to begin with and has CIA/Mossad stench all over it. LONE gunman kills 12 and wounds 31?? I thought it unlikely that just one shooter with 2 pistols caused so many casualties on a military base even though they don't carry loaded weapons on base. Even if they were just standing there like sitting ducks and not running for cover, this would require a copious amount of lead. When they first reported this they said there were THREE shooters, that would make more sense, .one dead one in custody and one still shooting. But later they changed to saying only one. Then they said the gunman was dead, but now he turns out to be alive...And "Private Civilian Contractors" (i.e. mercenaries) were the first responders?? Then they give us a "Jessica Lynch" story? They knew he was whacked and didn't do anything about it, but now they're backpedaling on that..nope not buying this story AT ALL..I MAY NOT KNOW THE TRUTH BUT I KNOW WHEN I'M BEING LIED TO!
This article, although correct about the atrocities committed against muslims in a phoney war on terror, is naive about the event at Fort Hood. And Dood makes an important point. The whole thing is so set up. It's the excuse Obama needs to escalate Afghanistan. The godless tyrants that rule us must have wars going all the time to feed their insatiable appetites. That is the bottom line. And they do soenjoy terrorizing Americans.
Fragging
Funny how most of these alternative news outlets have this guy convicted,just like the MSM! This event was either a false,flag designed to bolster the crumbling support for all these phony wars,(based on the false flag 911)or it was a mutiny by soldiers who did not want to deploy. The early reports were of 2-3 shooters,2-3 suspects later released,simultaneous shootings at several locations,as well as both pistol and rifle fire and multiple weapons as in rifles and pistols. No the shrink is the patsy,not the perp!
No question that we are culpable due to our stupid foreign policy, but Patton was successful against Rommel because he read Rommel's book. Think perhaps we might be better informed and prepared regarding Islam and its goals if we read the Koran?
It is not at all "uncertain what the repercussions will be to the economy overall" if the U.S. pursues a foreign policy of noninterventionism. Military Keynesianism--like Keynesianism in general--is a fraud. Yes, in the short run, there will be economic dislocation as troops come home and military contractors lose business. But the funds required to support those troops and contractors are extracted from the wealth-generating civilian economy in the first place: they are either taxed, borrowed or counterfeited (via Federal Reserve Bank "quantitative easing"). Taxing, borrowing and counterfeiting impoverishes the many for the benefit of the few. Return those funds to the civilian economy, and American companies can once again compete in world markets. American employeees can once again enjoy career opportunities. And American consumers can once again buy goods and services they can really use--instead of buying bombs and rockets and foreigners' undying enmity.
As long as zionists run our foreign policy, expect things to get worse.
hanging zionist traitors is not anti-semitic
Until we realize "WAR IS A RACKET", read Gen. Smedley Butler and that we send in economic hitmen to destroy economies of other nations, read "Confessions of a Economic Hitman", we will continue to have a us against them mentality. Obama is a talking head and the International Banking Oligarchy makes the rules and has an agenda in place. The propaganda is boundless and truth is scarce.
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