Nancy Gibbs: The "new" form of terrorism?

November 16, 9:02 PMMinneapolis Moderate ExaminerJohn Watne

Nancy Gibbs, journalist for TIME Magazine, penned an article recently about Nidal Hasan.  In it she considers the idea that "terrorism" as it is usually explained is not an accurate a designation for what we face as a nation.  But nothing exposes her as a Villager more than getting her facts wrong as did the rest of the media:

And who denied him his martyrdom? That would be Kimberly Munley, the SWAT-team markswoman nicknamed Mighty Mouse, who with her partner ran toward the sound of gunshots at the Soldier Readiness Center, where men and women about to deploy gather for vaccinations and eye exams.

It might help if there were at least agreement on what constitutes terrorism; one government study found 109 different definitions.

But while the motivations of the Virginia Tech gunman seemed perversely personal, Hasan had spent years telling anyone who would listen that the U.S. war effort in Iraq and Afghanistan was immoral.

When an Army officer is reported to proudly call himself a Muslim first, an American second; when he appears at a public-health seminar with the PowerPoint presentation "Why the War on Terror Is a War on Islam"; when he applauds the killing of a U.S. soldier by a Muslim convert at an Arkansas recruitment center; and when he is caught corresponding with a radical imam in Yemen who has called on all Muslims to kill American soldiers in Iraq, you wonder just how brightly the red lights had to flash before anyone was willing to stop and ask some questions.