What is it with right-wingers in the US, are they born stupid, or it gets handed out when they sign-up for that smart black uniform and those gucci leather boots ?
Phew, sorry bout that. See http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2010/02/25/identifying-terror/ to get an idea of why I'm so angry. The blog is nothing special (hot air sums it up entirely), in that it is typical of much right-wing ranting (okay, okay I can talk...) since Ft Hood.
Let me help out the hard of thinking (and God knows there are a great many of them).
If you label, officially, Hasan's murderous rampage as terrorism, then how do you objectively distinguish that from the many (too many) other nut-jobs going postal across the fair land ? And not, "Well Bubba, ah knows terrorism when ah sees it.." - but real, hard-nosed, legal, intelligent, objective analysis.
Get it yet ? The answer is almost certainly, that it can't be done. So if Ft Hood is terror, then how many of those other attacks would then fall under that same heading? (Is the penny finally dropping?)
And the good ol US of A instantly becomes - officially, legally - "the most terror-ridden country on the planet". And would that be good for business, do you think, Mr T Party?
So, rather than cowards, the Washington politicos are simply smart, and do not want the country's image dragged through the mud (or the level of endemic violence highlighted any more than it already is).
But of course they're smart: they are running the country, whilst the hard-of-thinking whine and whine online, and on air, and on Fox... To blacken the nation's reputation around the globe.
(Yup, it took a little anger to get me back to this blog...)
:-)
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