Pot Calls Kettle Black
Earlier this evening I caught the Fox News panel discussing the events at Fort Hood, where quite predictably Charles Krauthammer and Stephen Hayes were on a righteous tear about how the possibility that Nidal Hassan was an agent of al-Qaeda, or some other Islamofascist conspiracy against our precious bodily fluids, isn’t being taken seriously. Now, I must say I have been a bit startled to see the speed with which the memo has gotten out that Hassan was a PTSD-case and not a Muslim radical, and I have to agree that if this isn’t quite the truth that it is a necessary noble lie for the copper people. But what most stood out to me was Krauthammer’s invocation of his degree in psychiatry to denounce certain alleged behavior of Hassan as the most supremely unethical for a psychiatrist. And Krauthammer should know, being a bloodthirsty psycho-psychiatrist himself – and not incidentally, Krauthammer has the blood of several thousand American service people on his hands, while Hassan has only a dozen.
I didn’t catch Krauthammer’s all too predictable remarks. Your point about his professional affinity with his Fort Hood colleague was outright funny.
I suppose the unmentionable topic here is the trustworthiness of Muslims. It is the ultimate forbidden topic. We are so wed to our civil liberties in a context of multiculturalism that common sense precautions are out of the question. I suspect that the fear is that once we differentiate between one group and the rest of us, our whole mongrel family will be at each others throats. Perhaps so. But a nation that refuses to take prudent steps toward its own safety will not survive.
If we are in a struggle with some portions of Islam but not all, how do we determine who is and is not the enemy? Today’s Muslim ally can be tomorrow’s Muslim saboteur based on an unobservable change of conscience. Is this not an intolerable challenge to any security regime?
Nothing above should be taken to endorse our adventures in the Middle East or our dysfunctional empire.
Muslims are angry, but most of them are apathetic; just like the 90% of American Christians who let the government do what it likes without any accountability.