It’s now clear that Maj. Nidal Hasan was someone who went Jihadi, and showed plenty of warning signs. And yet those signs were ignored. And in the aftermath, we were treated to this weird display of anything but jihadism.
Why?
Over and over, we we are told not to even paint at all lest we paint with too broad a brush. If somebody puts on a hockey mask, revs up a chain saw, and threatens people, do I dismiss it because Jason is, after all, only a fictional character? Or do I respect the person enough to take them at their word and take action? I vote for taking action. Clearly others vote for dismissing it as fiction.
Why?
You want answers? You can’t handle the truth!”
——– Col. Nathan Jessup
I think Leonard Pitts gives the reason away in his column where he commits one of the fallacies I hate worst – pick the most extreme view and paint it as the entirety of your opponents views. He tells us, if we tell you the truth America, you’ll put moslems into internment camps or hang them from the nearest lightpost, because that’s who you are.
How else do you interpret the statement:
And it ought to leave you impatient with the shrill, intolerant voices who would have us believe Nidal Malik Hasan is every Muslim in America.
For what it’s worth, those same voices sang out when Japanese-American soldiers left internment camps to fight for freedom. And when African-American soldiers went abroad to defend democracy, then came home and were lynched still wearing their uniforms.
It leaves me impatient with shrill, intolerant voices who would have me believe a couple of quotes off the internet is representative of every American.
I think we see this again and again from certain people on the left – we can’t tell the truth, or America will go medieval on some minority group’s heiney like we always have in the past. And that’s what makes them self-loathing Americans. America is always wrong, and can never be trusted to do the right thing, or learn from past mistakes. The irony that they are the ones painting with too broad a brush is, of course, completely lost on them.
Actually, Leonard et al, we can handle the truth, what drives people crazy is being lied to. If you lie to people, don’t complain when they become paranoid.
