Posted by
Steve on Friday, November 06, 2009 1:13:54 PM
Last night on the way home, I was listening to the Mark Levin show. One of the callers talked about how they were excited about all the events that happened yesterday in Washington, D.C. After the event, they got to their car and heard about the shooting at Fort Hood in Texas. That was a letdown after the high of the event organized by Michelle Bachmann, Republican from Minnesota.
Having these two events at nearly the same time highlights the urgency of the problem. The positive event in Washington was to show our Congressional Representatives that we are serious about keeping the American way of life. The negative event in Texas showed us that we cannot be too careful when it comes to terrorists.
Officially, the Major that killed those soldiers was just trying to commit suicide. He had been upset for a long time about the role of the United States in this war against Islamo-Fascism. He converted to Islam only 5 years ago. During that time, he increasingly had problems with American involvement in the Middle East. He had been transferred to Fort Hood after a negative work report in his previous assignment. He may have been trying to commit suicide, but you do not do that and bring others to the event. This smells like a terrorist event. It looks like a terrorist event. It sounds like a terrorist event. The fact that the government is not calling it a terrorist event does not mean that it is not a terrorist event. We will probably never know the truth about what happened. We may learn a lot of the facts, but there will always be something left unsaid. The fact that he was a Muslim should figure prominently in the reports. The fact that he is a Muslim is hardly mentioned, except as background material.
This shooting at Fort Hood tells us that we have more to do when it comes to security in our Armed Forces. If a Major can commit murders like this, then there are probably other suspects out there. That this Major was a convert to Islam within the past 5 years sounds to me like something that should be looked into. I am not saying that every convert to Islam is a murderer or terrorist. I am saying that they should be checked to determine whether they are security risks. That is because another recent convert to Islam killed those soldiers at the beginning of the war to liberate Iraq by rolling a grenade into a tent. For these reasons, they should be checked for a potential security risk.
The two events yesterday should be a wake-up call for the Obama administration. Somehow I do not think that the Obama administration will wake up. I have a feeling that they are deliberately sleeping on the job when it comes to security. I cannot prove that last statement, but it just feels that way. The Obama administration does not support the troops like the Bush administration did. They use the troops as photo ops instead of bonding with the soldiers, marines and sailors they come in contact with. George W. Bush always made it a point to bond with the military units he visited. He would walk among them and shake hands. He gave them what they needed to do their jobs. I do not see any of that from the Obama administration.
Michelle Bachmann’s “Tea Party” was meant to drive home to our elected representatives that we are serious. The elections last Tuesday showed that the voters in blue states are serious about what is going on. That there were at least 10,000+ at the event yesterday showed that people across the country are serious. It is time for Congress to get serious. We will see if they get the message. Or we WILL see that they get the message next November.