A gaffe in Washington is when someone inadvertently blurts out the truth. There is a reluctance in the nation's capital, bordering on paralysis, to be politically incorrect. After six decades as a journalist, I have no hesitation in casting political correctness aside if it shades or distorts the truth.
Nidal Malik Hasan, the U.S. army psychiatrist who had the rank of major when he was charged with killing 13 (12 of them military personnel) and wounding 30 at Fort Hood last November, shouted "Allahu Akhbar" (God is greatest) as he opened fire. Maj. Hasan's online religious counselor was U.S.-born Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, an extremist known for his pro-al Qaeda sermons, who had left the United States to "preach" from Yemen. Intercepted e-mails between the two were forwarded to the FBI Terrorism Task Force in 2008. They determined Maj. Hasan was not a threat prior to the shooting spree and the e-mails were consistent with "medical research." Yet army officers who knew Maj. Hasan were aware of his radical proclivities.
Last January's U.S. Army report on the Fort Hood murders in cold blood did not mention Islam, Islamist or Islamist extremism. Ever-vigilant Islamic human rights organizations have decreed no link between Maj. Hasan, al Qaeda and Islam. If the rules of war had been stripped of political correctness and kept up-to-date, Maj. Hasan would be the modern-day equivalent of a defector to the enemy - i.e., a deserter.
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If we lose a city, we'll be getting off cheap. No It's going to be an EMP attack that will draw very little direct blood, but will mean the loss of at least 50% of our population within a year.
The sooner something happens that will finally wake people up, the better. That's not being bloodthirsty, it's just a fact -- the longer it takes, the worse it will be, because this is a problem -- like slavery or Nazism -- that can't be delayed out of existence. This tide has to turn, and soon.
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