ELB wrote:Nobody made Hasan do what he did. He acted alone. If we accept that he was somehow controlled, then we have to accept that Right-to-Life forced Eric Rudolph to bomb abortion clinics. I rejected that: both criminals acted as individuals.
This is complete nonsense. Right-to-Life did not advocate bombing every abortion clinic out of existence. There are multiple calls from al Qaeda and its philosophical adherents, to kill infidels in general, and US soldiers in particular, wherever they are found. By fanatical muslims "acting alone." This is in fact a coordinated strategy, there is communication from recognized Islamic fanatic authorities -- including that imam in Virginia that Hasan went to -- to their followers to do exactly what Hasan did. (And take notice that that same imam is congratulating Hasan. In our country.) Like what happened at LAX in 2000. Like what happened at the Recruiting station in Little Rock this past summer. Like what happened an the New Orleans airport in 2002. Like the vehicle attacks in San Francisco, Minneapolis, and Chapel Hill. Like at Univ of Oklahoma. LIke Malvo and Muhammad (who is going to be executed tomorrow, inshallah.)
Because there isn't an elaborate command and control system and an Ops Plan and a logistics tail a mile long doesn't mean these things are not related. The "commander's intent" is well communicated, and the details are left up to those who want to act on it. This is not lone madman kind of stuff. I can't believe that in a country where more than half the country still thinks JFK was the victim of a plot refuses to see what Islamic fanatics broadcast daily as one of their strategies. Instead, we get crying and moaning over yet another non-existent "backlash."
We will see more of these, and they will get bloodier and bloodier. Pray we wake up before Beslan comes to America.
