WHO GUARDS THE GUARDIANS?

Back-stabbed Deep in the Heart of Texas

Mark Steyn:

[H]is superior officers and other authorities knew about his beliefs but seemed to think it was just a bit of harmless multicultural diversity — as if …objectively supporting the other side in an active war is to be regarded as just some kind of alternative lifestyle that adds to the general vibrancy of the base.

…”‘I wish his name was Smith.‘”

What a strange reaction. I suppose what she means is that, if his name were Smith, we could all retreat back into the same comforting illusions that allowed the bureaucracy to advance Nidal Malik Hasan to major and into the heart of Fort Hood while ignoring everything that mattered about the essence of this man. …

But we’re scrupulously non-judgmental about the ideology that drives a man to fly into a building or self-detonate on the subway, and thus we have a hole at the heart of our strategy. We use rhetorical conveniences like “radical Islam” or, if that seems a wee bit Islamophobic, just plain old “radical extremism.” But we never make any effort to delineate the line which separates “radical Islam” from non-radical Islam. Indeed, we go to great lengths to make it even fuzzier. …

Yet why be surprised? Azad Ali, a man who approvingly quotes such observations as “If I saw an American or British man wearing a soldier’s uniform inside Iraq I would kill him because that is my obligation” is an adviser to Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service (the equivalent of the U.S. attorneys). In Toronto this week, the brave ex-Muslim Nonie Darwish mentioned en passant that, on flying from the U.S. to Canada, she was questioned at length about the purpose of her visit by an apparently Muslim border official. When she revealed that she was giving a speech about Islamic law, he rebuked her: “We are not to question sharia.”

That’s the guy manning the airport-security desk.

…The vast majority of Muslims don’t conspire to kill cartoonists or murder their daughters or shoot dozens of their fellow soldiers. But Islam inspires enough of this behavior to make it a legitimate topic of analysis. Don’t hold your breath. We’d rather talk about anything else — even in the Army. …America has the best troops and fiercest firepower, but no strategy for throttling the ideology that drives the enemy — in Afghanistan and in Texas.

Read it all …before a Human Rights Commission bans it as “hate speech”, while ignoring Muslim border guards ordering you to obey Shariah Law.

UPDATE: One more line from the column:

“You need to lock it up, Major,” cautioned his superior officer, Col. Terry Lee.

Col. Lee wasn’t his commanding officer, but a superior colleague, and it seems he tried to do the right thing.

But we didn’t need the Major to “lock it up”, we needed to lock up the major.

In civilian life, you can accuse the military of air-raiding innocent women and children, pal around with terrorists and still be elected president. But I’m pretty sure that Army regulations prohibit advocating the death and defeat of your fellow soldiers.

This killer was shuffled away from Walter Reed, but he was then inflicted upon Ft. Hood when he should have been in Leavenworth. But the worst result–and a likely one–is this:

The commanding officers will be railroaded even though their hands were somewhat tied, while we leave in place those policy handcuffs. After all, the policy starts at the very top in the White House and runs all the way down. They’re in our damn breakfast cereal, truth be known.

And the truth should be known:

No More Self-Inflicted Liberal Amnesia! Remember the Amnesia–If You Can!