MAY I HAVE ANOTHER?

Our Miss Brooks gets one right between the bloomers:

A shroud of political correctness settled over the conversation. Hasan was portrayed as a victim of society, a poor soul who was pushed over the edge by prejudice and unhappiness.

There was a national rush to therapy. Hasan was a loner who had trouble finding a wife and socializing with his neighbors.

This response was understandable. It’s important to tamp down vengeful hatreds in moments of passion. But it was also patronizing. Public commentators assumed the air of kindergarten teachers who had to protect their children from thinking certain impermissible and intolerant thoughts. If public commentary wasn’t carefully policed, the assumption seemed to be, then the great mass of unwashed yahoos in Middle America would go off on a racist rampage.

Worse, it absolved Hasan — before the real evidence was in — of his responsibility. He didn’t have the choice to be lonely or unhappy. But he did have a choice over what story to build out of those circumstances. And evidence is now mounting to suggest he chose the extremist War on Islam narrative that so often leads to murderous results.

The conversation in the first few days after the massacre was well intentioned, but it suggested a willful flight from reality. It ignored the fact that the war narrative of the struggle against Islam is the central feature of American foreign policy. It ignored the fact that this narrative can be embraced by a self-radicalizing individual in the U.S. as much as by groups in Tehran, Gaza or Kandahar.

It denied, before the evidence was in, the possibility of evil. It sought to reduce a heinous act to social maladjustment. It wasn’t the reaction of a morally or politically serious nation.

And right on cue, Dr. Sigmund Hussein Fraud gives us His diagnosis:

“In a country of 300 million people, there are going to be acts of violence that are inexplicable. Even within the extraordinary military that we have — and I think everybody understands how outstanding the young men and women in uniform are under the most severe stress — there are going to be instances in which an individual cracks.”

If Hasan is “cracked”, then so is every other jihadist.

That means Khalid Sheik Mohammed should be confined at the State Mental Hospital until psychiatrists say he can safely integrate into American society; a process that usually takes, two, maybe three weeks.

Hey, Hasan’s a shrink–maybe he could evaluate KSM for us!

The point is, if this is mental illness, then we aren’t fighting terrorism–we’re in the War on Craziness. ALL of them are “cracked” by this standard.

Hasan isn’t “cracked”. He’s just as sane as all the other terrorists.

We let the Obama Administration order both the FBI and the Dept. of Defense to stand down on Hasan’s contacts with al Qaeda, and the final results are in: the First Terrorist Attack on America Since 9/11.

And now we’re letting him get away with it by calling it a mental episode. What Obama is really saying is that he’s going to continue giving a pass to jihadists. He’s going to do it again. He’s not gonna stop with the PC insanity. He’s doubling down on Dhimmitude.

Hasan isn’t crazy–we are.