A Hood over Their Eyes 0
Frank Rich in the Toimes on the murders at Fort Hood:
(major snippage)
Perhaps those on the right are correct about Hasan, and he is just one cog in an apocalyptic jihadist plot that has infiltrated our armed forces. If so, then they have an obligation to explain how pouring more troops into Afghanistan would have stopped Hasan from plotting in Killeen. Don’t hold your breath. If we have learned anything concrete so far from the massacre at Fort Hood, it’s that our hawks, for all their certitude, are as utterly confused as the rest of us about who it is we’re fighting in Afghanistan and to what end.
Frankly, I think the issue is much simpler than does Mr. Rich. It is not confusion of policy.
It is that there is a contingent of the US population for whom war–that is, killing people–is the preferred, indeed, the only course of action in all cases, whether it is Crime in the Streets or Those People over There. They think it is quick, clean, and final, when it is none of those things.
As long as the children of others do the killing.
