{"id":21592,"date":"2013-08-11T12:06:37","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T17:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=21592"},"modified":"2013-08-11T12:06:37","modified_gmt":"2013-08-11T17:06:37","slug":"the-fort-hood-court-martial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/08\/11\/the-fort-hood-court-martial\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fort Hood court-martial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/355421\/know-thine-enemy-mark-steyn\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Steyn<\/a> on the trial of Major Hasan for &#8220;workplace violence&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On December 7, 1941, the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor was attacked. Three years, eight months, and eight days later, the Japanese surrendered. These days, America\u2019s military moves at a more leisurely pace. On November 5, 2009, another U.S. base, Fort Hood, was attacked \u2014 by one man standing on a table, screaming \u201cAllahu akbar!\u201d and opening fire. Three years, nine months, and one day later, his court-martial finally got under way.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s admirably upfront about who and what he is \u2014 a \u201cSoldier of Allah,\u201d as he put on his business card. On Tuesday, he admitted he was a traitor who had crossed over from \u201cthe bad side\u201d (America\u2019s) to \u201cthe good side\u201d (Islam\u2019s). He has renounced his U.S. citizenship and its effete protections such as workplace-violence disability leave. He professes loyalty to America\u2019s enemies. He says, \u201cI am the shooter.\u201d He helpfully informs us that that\u2019s his gun. In this week\u2019s one-minute statement, he spoke more honestly and made more sense than Obama, Gates, Casey, the Armed Forces Court of Appeals, two judges, the prosecution and defense lawyers, and mountains of bureaucratic reports and media coverage put together.<\/p>\n<p>But poor old Hasan can say \u201cYup, I did it\u201d all he wants; what does he know? <\/p>\n<p>Unlike the Zimmerman trial, Major Hasan\u2019s has not excited the attention of the media. Yet it is far more symbolic of the state of America than the Trayvon Martin case, in which superannuated race hucksters attempted to impose a half-century-old moth-eaten Klan hood on a guy who\u2019s a virtual one-man melting pot. The response to Nidal Hasan helps explain why, in Afghanistan and elsewhere, this war is being lost \u2014 because it cannot be won because, increasingly, it cannot even be acknowledged. Which helps explain why it now takes the U.S. military longer to prosecute a case of \u201cworkplace violence\u201d than it did to win World War Two. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Steyn on the trial of Major Hasan for &#8220;workplace violence&#8221;: On December 7, 1941, the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor was attacked. Three years, eight months, and eight days later, the Japanese surrendered. These days, America\u2019s military moves at a more leisurely pace. 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