Political Correctness should never impede National SecurityEarly Wednesday morning on the Bill Bennett Morning in America radio show, Arizona Senator John McCain harshly critized politicians and those in the media who were attempting to whitewash the Ft. Hood murders as anything but a direct Islamic terrorist attack on the United States.
Later in the day, McCain echoed those comments in a Veterans Day address at the Univ. of Louisville in Kentucky, and joined other Republicans calling for congressional oversight and investigation into the attack.
From McClatchy:
U.S. Sen. John McCain, the Arizona Republican and former presidential candidate, called last week's shooting at Fort Hood "an act of terror" during a speech at the University of Louisville Wednesday morning...Army Vet and self-described "libertarian at heart" Steve "Pink Eyes" at The Military Blog America's Watchtower commented:
"This may sound a little harsh, but I think we ought to make sure that political correctness never impedes national security," McCain said at U of L, where he was speaking at an event honoring U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. "There were signs this individual had some very disturbing behavior patterns that should have been alerted to the proper authorities."
Truer words have never been spoken. The list of politicians who have called the shootings an act of terrorism may be small, John McCain, Joe Lieberman, and Pete Hoekstra, but that list is growing and it will continue to grow as more details about the massacre come out.
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Looks like this is going to be another big "Oops!" for this administration. Too bad it took a massacre of our brave soldiers by a radical fuck to bring the issue to light.
Out of greatness comes diversity, not the other way around. Forced diversity accomplishes nothing.
McCain sure is a mixed bag. Dead wrong on "climate change", dead wrong on BCFR, right on the War and he had the guts to bring Palin on-stage.
Did you hear about Mike Bloomberg and Raymond Kelly?
http://ny1.com/1-all-boroughs-news-content/top_stories/108813/city--muslim-leaders-discuss-impact-of-fort-hood-shooting
Totally out of reality.
A month or so ago, my favorite priest (I’m not Catholic; go figure) said that political correctness is evil. There’s just correct and incorrect. Truth and untruth. (He explains it a lot better than I do.) I thought it was a bit much at the time. Now I think he was exactly right.
@Bill: I wish more priests were like that. Unfortunately, it seems that the majority of them in recent years have equated PC with a sense of right and wrong.
Please tell your priest friend that I said I wish he was my priest! :-)
The only way to turn the Fort Hood attack into "terrorism" would be to posthumously and retroactively discharge the victims. An attack on military personnel at a military base isn't "terrorism."
What a load of cr@pp.
Michael G. Cahill, of Cameron, Texas was a civie.
So is Sgt. Munley.
Likewise, Pvt. Velez' baby. That's three civilians... two of them dead, one - Thank God - alive and recovering. Two civilian victims more than is necessary to constitute terrorism.
Feel free to call the attack on the enlisted and commissioned as you see fit.
"Climate Change" is nothing if not politically correct
Inconsistency is the hallmark of a Moderate.
If Hasan had attacked Fort Hood dressed in the "uniform" of an enemy that would be one thing. But he dressed in the uniform of his intended victims. That was treason.
An attack on people which Hasan knew full well were unarmed, is worse than an attack on people that may be unarmed. That was terrorism.
Ran,
You're missing the point.
Terrorism targets civilians, for the purpose of creating terror and influencing the political outcome.
If any act in which a civilian happens to get killed is terrorism, then every US attack in Iraq or Afghanistan which "collateral damage" is involved is terrorism. Is that your position?
Not all heinous acts are terrorism, any more than all cancers are leukemia.
Mccain is not my favorite man in the senate. Granted the only man in the senate I really like is Jim Demint. Yet I do respect how he speaks with honor.
@Knapp: You know I'll be respectful in my dissent, but I have a problem wrapping my brain around this:
Not all heinous acts are terrorism, any more than all cancers are leukemia.
This is true, but to equate terrorism with cancer really doesn't make sense. Cancer doesn't discriminate, whereas terrorists target a specific group for a myriad of reasons. In this case, it seems that "infidels" were the target. Mr. Hasan saw a specific group as the enemy.
That, my friend, is a huge difference.
If someone had reported his actions in previous months, they would've been labeled as "paranoid" and "islamaphobic." The fear of being labeled as such is part of the reason he was so emboldened to carry out his agenda.
I believe I heard on Hannity today that a 14th victim has died.
Has anyone else heard that?
Eric: I counted Pvt. Velez's unborn baby as victim #14. The media has overlooked it.
http://therightstuffbng.blogspot.com/2009/11/victim-14.html
@Tom:
If not terrorism, then an act of war? The military was attacked by a crazy muslim, or is that redundant? While even I might agree it was the at of one nut, that nut was coached and tutored by some known terrorism supporters and I would be they not only support the outcome, but hoped for it as well.
@Tom: is the IRA terrorists? They killed British soldiers...or so that was their claim. They killed far more innocent people than soldiers, mostly by pure stupidity, like a gang that couldn't shoot straight.
@Eric:
Make that the 15th then.
Tom, you are missing Hasan's point. The act was Jihad.
Call it what you want, I'll call it terrorism. It is not nicely and neatly confined to the limits of "civilians", nor in the case of a post-9/11 America, is it likely to intimidate and influence politics in the desired direction.
Cahill and Munley did not just "happen" to get shot - that pig's butt pointed at them with intent and pulled the trigger. Nothing "just happened" about it. They were Infidels like the others.
Jihad on American soil is terrorism. That's my position.
And talking about PC, now were her the woman didn't cap Hasan. It was the male cop.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/us/12hood.html
@RG: It's the Times, dude. I'd have a hard time buying their shit if they told me my name was blackandgoldfan.
More fucking pandering from the "compassionate left."
RightGuy... Like BGF sez, it's the Times. Smells like an attempt to cover the "shame" of having been put-down by a woman. Coulda been the guy who shot our InstaJihadi, but I'll wait for a reliable source.
You sound perturbed. I rarely see you curse...You must be pissed. Being a NYer, fuck is like saying hello. Anyway, Fuck hasan...actually I like that picture you had with the goat.
@RG: I'm just really disgusted with the way this whole thing is being spun. I refuse to be PC anymore. Besides, IMO, the only true curse word is taking God's name in vain. I believe the rest are societal taboos. :-)
I was fond of the goat pic, too. How fitting!
"If not terrorism, then an act of war?"
Absolutely. And since he was a US citizen and member of the US armed forces, it was a particular kind of act of war: Treason, i.e. levying war against the United States.
"is the IRA terrorists? They killed British soldiers...or so that was their claim. They killed far more innocent people than soldiers, mostly by pure stupidity, like a gang that couldn't shoot straight."
There have been a number of different groups calling themselves "the IRA." Some of them targeted civilians, some of them went out of their way NOT to target civilians. If you target civilians for the purpose of creating terror, you're a terrorist. If you don't, you're not.
Ran, no, I'm not missing RG's point. Terrorism is terrorism. Non-terrorism isn't terrorism, even if it's an evil act -- which this was.
Only a gibbering idiot would go to such lengths in a desperate attempt to say that this act of terrorism by a Muslim terrorist wasn't terrorism.
The fact that the people this terrorist murdered happened to have military jobs instead of different types of jobs is only relevant to a fool. The asshole went to work one day after shaving his balls and giving away all of his possessions and shot 50 unarmed people while screaming "Ali Babba Akbar". He chose the military base because he knew he could get away with more carnage there since no one there was armed.
What a pathetic dumbass.
@Chuck:
Correcto. And the sad part is they had to call the police. It's ridiculous they were unarmed, but I think we have cigar Bill to thank for that.
THe press is using a template because either A) they don't want to foment anti-islam sentiment or B)they don't want to face the truth that islam is what it is. I pick A and B. Throw in the fact they hate America as much as Obamallah.
Unfortunately we are dealing with an enemy that isn't rational. The only thing they respect is a smackdown.
I don't fault the military for their policies as to weapons on the base. Their reasons are honorable. The culture of cowardice that has evolved as a result of relentless crusading by scumbag leftists is a crisis though. Its a fucking outrage what these apologists for evil have managed to accomplish.
Leftists are the scum of the earth.
@Chuck:
The ban was in 1993 I think. I can't see why they need an outright ban, unless of course the officers don't trust their enlisted personnel. If I can get a CCW as a civilian, why can't a military person carry openly on base? JMO.
As far as liberals go, it has already been classified as a mental disorder.
Its not a clinical condition. It is a decision in favor of evil over good.
It is calculated. Hard-core leftists aren't just mistaken; they are evil human beings.
They are the scum of the earth.
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