There Are None So Blind

It's been said over and over that there has not been a terror attack in the United States since 9-11.

We can no longer say that.

Only those blinded by political correctness and fear can not see the attack by Nidal Malik Hasan ( I will not give him the honor of referring to his military rank.) for what it is; a terror attack of Islamic extremism. He didn't snap under the pressure. He didn't do this because of harassment. He was just flat a terrorist. Plenty has come out to show his ideology was stewing for years just waiting for the right moment to explode.

Oddly enough although his extremism had been festering for years it seems it took President Obama to bring it out. Reports seem to show that when Hasan realized Barack Obama was not going to immediately pull troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan he became more entrenched in his hatred. I'm not suggesting in any way this is President Obama's fault. It's just interesting.

When soldiers die they are described as dying in the line of duty, defending the country. I wish that could be said here. These men did not die for some described noble purpose but rather as a sacrifice at the alters of the gods of political correctness and fear. They were killed as sheep in a slaughterhouse.

Nidal Hasan did everything but wear a placard calling himself an Islamic terrorist. He vocalized it. He visited extremist websites. He went to extremist Mosques. He seems to have done everything but make one of those suicide videos. He gave away his possessions. He cleaned out his apartment. Yet the military did nothing except possibly pass him off to some other installation. Then one of General George Casey's first comments was that he hoped it didn't cause a backlash against other Muslims in the armed forces. Really? No concern that where there is one there is likely more? No concern that your army failed to deal with this guy? Unfortunately this is not the first case of Muslims in the US army turning against their comrades and it won't be the last.

The army needs a 12 step program and the first step is to admit they have a problem. We all need to admit we have a problem here. The FBI immediately came out and said they weren't treating this as a terror attack. Please, here's a napkin for the egg.

We have mosques in this country preaching Islamic extremism. We have government officials and media who have no problem calling tea party participants unpatriotic extremists but refuse to use the words Islamic terrorist. We have young men in the US Somali community who disappear and end up in Somalia. We know this because some have been killed there participating in terror attacks. Some of these men come back here. For what? Is Mogadishu the new Cancun? I hear it's beautiful this time of year. No there is only one reason to go there and it's not for the grilled goat.

Yet, we make it official policy to refuse to acknowledge what we have here.

Abraham Lincoln said "If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide." We are headed down that road.

It's become fashionable among some to say the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have made us less safe, have weakened our military. Nonsense, militarily we are stronger. Our troops have learned strategies, techniques and have gained knowledge that they couldn't learn in a thousand years of drills and war games. We have the strongest and unfortunately the most battle hardened military in the world.

Instead we are destroying ourselves from within. We have made ourselves weaker, willingly. We have put ourselves at the mercy of Islamic extremists. We have put ourselves at the mercy of the nations that hold our debt, notably the Chinese. There's a reason gold is at 1100$ an ounce and it's not because of the pretty color. We have put ourselves at the mercy of the nations we buy our oil from.

All of this because we refuse to do the things that could be done to relieve those burdens.

The danger is that we are rotting from the inside out. No military, regardless of how strong, can defend a nation that has lost it's national soul and it's willingness to confront danger. It's possible we will wake up one day, look around us and see that things have changed and America won't be the same as when we went to bed the night before.