Ft. Hood Part Deux…
Thought this was an excellent follow-up to the Alan Keyes post yesterday …
From Iowa’s leading talkshow host Steve Deace:
Deace’s Daily Diary: November 10th & 11th, 2009
The more we learn about what Major Nidal Hasan did at Ft. Hood in Texas last week, and why he did it, the more I begin to wonder why the Islamo-fascists even bother to blow themselves up anymore.
Hasan’s treacherous act again demonstrates that through moral relativism, postmodern psychobabble, and pagan political correctness we’re doing such a good job of destroying the American way of life all on our own, who needs the jihadists?
I was on the air as the news media began covering the breaking news story last week. Not 10 minutes after news of Hasan’s murderous rampage broke, the military and the White House were already busy telling us this wasn’t a terrorist act, but rather a random act of violence. Then when news of the identity of the shooter broke, and his name sounded awfully Muslim, those same forces tried to calm our fears that this had nothing to do with Islam.
Of course, it couldn’t.
This is the religion of peace after all, and it’s not like it was founded by a man who couldn’t read or write and spent the last 20 years of his life fighting wars. No, that couldn’t possibly be true. Besides, as our “Christian” President George W. Bush told us, “We’re all sons of Abraham and worship the same God.”
It was obvious we were constructing the reality we wanted, whether it was really reality or not, and then viewing the actual events in a way that lined up with our desired outcome. In other words, this was a classic case of magical thinking.
The spell was broken when the news emerged of Hasan shouting “Allah is great” in Arabic as he opened fire on his fellow soldiers. We were again confronted with the inconvenient truth that just because we’ve sold out our religious traditions for a secular enlightenment here in the formerly Judeo-Christian West, doesn’t mean our adversaries in the Muslim world have sold out theirs.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, Hasan may have done America a favor if we heed the warnings after the fact that we ignored beforehand, which sadly cost 13 brave and loyal Americans at Ft. Hood their lives. If we stop lying to ourselves and accept the grave determination of the religious ideology that allegedly drove Hasan, then those 13 Americans didn’t perish in vain.
But if we continue to delude ourselves that the rest of the world is just as deluded as we are, or really wants to be if we give them “democracy” whether they want it or not, we will see even worse tragedies than the one last week at Ft. Hood.
The first duty of any government is to protect the innocent from evildoers. Every elected leader and soldier pledges to protect and defend us and our Constitution against all enemies both “foreign and domestic.” Yet I’m not sure there’s anything in the Founding Fathers’ playbook for how to combat the enemy when the enemy is our own stinking thinking, and the dangerous actions of political leaders and soldiers are simply a reflection of our own murky image.
We have seen the enemy, and he is us.
Read the whole thing here complete with video. You won’t regret it.
