If Only We Had A President

By now, we are all aware of the mass murder of unarmed soldiers by Muslim psychiatrist Major Malik Nadal Hasan at Ft. Hood, and we've all heard the speculation surrounding it. This article will only briefly address the attack itself. The main theme here is how the President of the United States and Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces addressed the matter. It was disgraceful.

First, for what we know about the attack. I will call it a terrorist attack no matter what the mainstream chooses to do. "Terrorist attack" does not require a vast conspiracy, or a sleeper cell coming awake, or a planned and organized assault acting on the orders of Al Qaeda. A Muslim who put Islam before country and who while in the military service actively opposed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and declared the right of Muslims in those countries to rise up and kill American troops opened fire in an assembly hall with two handguns. Multiple reports state that he shouted "Allahu akhbar" (God is great) before opening fire on the unarmed men and women in the hall. By the time the slaughter was over, thirteen people were dead and another thirty-eight wounded, some critically. And it was done by a man born a Palestinian Muslim who has been expressing anti-American views for at least a decade.

Despite early reports, the fanatic was not killed. As of this writing, he remains in critical but stable condition in a local hospital, in an induced coma to allow for the surgery to take effect. That is already far more mercy than he showed his victims. Reports detail how he calculatedly gave away his belongings, including his beloved Koran, before heading to his murder scene. Unlike many of us civilians, he was an army officer who knew full good and well that even on an army base, except for the military police and security staff, nobody in that room would be armed. And it was unlikely that either the MPs or security would be present that morning.

Multiple excuses for his behavior were being touted early by the politically-correct press and television commentators. He had post traumatic stress disorder (in fact, he has never been in a situation where PTSD would result, and his job as a psychiatrist was to help those who had truly suffered the horrors of war). He had made so many inflammatory pro-Muslim comments at his earlier posting at a military hospital, that they wanted him out of there. He was transferred to Ft. Hood, and continued to get poor reviews from his superior officers. Allegedly, there were anti-Muslim comments made to him by his fellow soldiers, so that may have triggered the attack. Or maybe it was that despite his multiple pleas to the contrary, he had been notified that he was going to be deployed to a war zone where he would be watching his fellow Muslims die. All are great justifications for mass murder, don't you think?

We will be getting the details of both the attack and the murderer's background for weeks and months to come. But one thing remains true. Make no mistake. This was a terrorist attack, carried out by a Muslim adherent of jihad. The Committee on Arab-American Relations (CAIR) rushed to denounce the attack for the sole purpose of trying to convince the world that the murderer's radical Islamic views had nothing to do with it. Horse manure.

Now comes the President of the United States and Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces to address the attack. He had been attending some useless conference about some new socialist program when he was informed of the attack. After being told, he dithered around for a few minutes while deciding how to react to the attack before going live on television to address the American people. There were already no doubts about the nature and the extent of the attack, unlike those immediately following September 11, 2001. So naturally, the president would make a bold and forthright statement condemning both the attack and terrorism, right? Here's how he began his statement (you didn't see this on most TV reports or read it in many later written reports or the reader boards at the bottom of the cable news reports):

"Let me first of all just thank Ken and the entire Department of the Interior Staff for organizing just an extraordinary conference. Uh, I want to thank my cabinet members and senior administration officials who participated today. Uh, I hear that Dr. Joe 'Medicine' Crow was around. So I want to give a shout out. My understanding is, is that you uh had an extremely productive conference."

Drink that in. The president has been told that a massacre has just taken place on an American army base, on American soil, by a Muslim fanatic, and all this scummy Chicago politician can think to do first is spend two to three minutes of his national airtime to thank and commend his political hacks and sycophants at a political conference. Ladies and gentlemen, this man is in charge of the troops who are there to keep us safe from Muslim fanatics.

Not a word about the Ft. Hood mass murders until he made sure he had properly thanked his disciples for their wonderful conference. But surely now he will make a bold statement, comforting the victims, their families and the American people, followed by a warning to all those who would choose to believe that America is an easy target. Nope. While he was finally addressing the attack, every cable feed was running scrolling details of the attack below the shots of his fake grim face. Everybody in America who was watching the events unfold knew what had happened.

So here's what the nuanced leader of the American armed forces had to say: "We don't yet know all the details at this moment. We will share them as we get them. We will make sure we get answers to every single question about this horrible incident. I hope all of you recognize the scope of this tragedy." Since apparently everybody in America already knew the scope of the "tragedy," he must have been referring to his cowardly, namby-pamby words. This is of course consistent with liberal thinking about jihadist attacks such as 9-11. They are "tragedies that happen" rather than murderous undeclared war on America.

And then, unbelievably, this cheap politician closed his remarks by making closing comments repeating his feelings about the now totally irrelevant conference he has just attended. It was undoubtedly the most reprehensible speech any president has ever made about an attack on America in all of American history.

And how does the mainstream report it? "Mr. Obama made an immediate and bold statement about the Ft. Hood tragedy." There's that "tragedy" again. I can only wonder what our brave soldiers stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan must be thinking now about their fate which is in the hands of this president who can't even recognize a terrorist attack on American soil, and call it by its proper name--Jihad.

Immediately after the 9-11 attacks, there was mass confusion about what had happened, unlike the event at Ft. Hood. President Bush recognized that scaring the children at the school where he was appearing would do no good while he waited for confirmation of the facts in New York, the Pentagon and Pennsylvania. He finished up what he was doing, left the school, and waited for definitive reports to reach him so that he could address the nation at the earliest possible time.

Once the president had the basic facts, he immediately went on television and made the following statement: "Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended." He neglected to first thank the entire faculty and staff of the school for a wonderful conference, or to pay homage to his political operatives. He just laid it out. "We were attacked, and this will not stand."

Bush was soon thereafter portrayed by the mainstream media as a moron for continuing with the discussion of the children's book "My Pet Goat," and as endangering America by not moving fast enough to deal with the crisis. 9-11 Truthers even go so far as to say that he delayed making a statement as long as possible because he knew of the attack in advance and was waiting to see if it had been successful. There is no limit to the depths to which the mainstream will sink in its ongoing attack on America and everything she has stood for.

But when a president has 99% of the facts within minutes, and chooses to make a political speech before addressing what he called a tragedy, the mainstream media reports it as a bold and decisive move on the part of their messiah. "Disgust" is the only non-obscenity I can use to describe Obama's cowardly speech and the mainstream media's coverage of it.