THE MILITARY STRIKE AT FORT HOOD

Now that your friendly ostrich killer has gotten over his anger at the events at Fort Hood, he has donned his more thoughtful, philosophical thinking hat. The following is something that you may not hear from any other source.

The scumbag who killed all those people was an enemy soldier, who had successfully infiltrated our military and conducted a military strike. That is a time-honored tradition of all armies since the beginning of time.

It's important to notice the primary difference between terrorists and military: terrorists attack the defenseless, military attacks military. Since Hasan attacked a military target, and was an enemy in disguise, this is a simple case of military action.

Now, it's tradition that such infiltrators who do not wear the uniforms of their convictions are shot on capture. Executed on the spot, no trial no nothing. That famous photo taken in Viet Nam is one such case. The guy getting his brains blown out was correctly getting them blown out.

But that scumbag Hasan is still alive. To that I say Hooray. Now he can be squeezed for information. Now he and any of his clandestine helpers and supporters can hear the mainstream muslim leadership condemn what he did. He'll get to learn that a woman half his size brought him down. I'd love to see his face when he learns that. Did you know that among the other signals he was sending out to the Army, he always refused to be photographed with women in group photos?

But there are other troubling items still left on the plate:

1. What intelligence agencies failed to provide the necessary warnings, even when they had good cause to predict what he would do? (You can start by guessing special handling for islamics.)

2. Why did the US Army fail to act when they knew about his 'islam first, America second' convictions? (You can start by guessing PC here.)

3. Why does General Casey, Army Chief of Staff, believe that diversity in the Army is more important than the lives of his soldiers? Here's what he said, direct quote: “Our diversity, not only in our Army, but in our country, is a strength. And as horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that’s worse."

4. What steps will be taken to prevent another such tragedy? This is the second one of its type, both in the Army.

5. Hasan was a psychiatrist. What did he plant in the heads of his patients? What did he learn from them that he may have passed along to his friends in Al Qaeda? Who among his patients might have been a contact / message carrier for Al Qaeda? I'm sure our intelligence agencies can think of many other such questions. OTOH, given the failures to date, maybe not . . . maybe they've been emasculated to the point of utter impotence.

Obama can't blame that on Bush.