If It Quacks Like A Duck

We had a massacre at Fort Hood; 13 dead and scores wounded, many of them critically.  The shooter was Nidal Malik Hassan.   It wasn't but a few hours before the liberal spin began. Hassan was a good American, a proud soldier and genuine good guy. The media tension was palpable. Was anyone brave enough to draw the Muslim connection?

Well the usual suspects weighed in in the form of FOX News and talk radio to draw the connection to Jihad, but the politicians, mainstream media and the White House were so, so careful. After all, this is an administration who has forbid the use of "War on Terror" in its official announcements. It would seem that the radical Islamist threat can be willed away with an edict from His Majesty Barack; "just don't talk about it, we don't want to embarrass our friends the Muslims". Well I'm one guy who believes the old adage; "if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck"......well it's a duck, like it or not.

A few days have passed since the shooting and a few brave souls have dared to call the Ft. Hood massacre an act of terrorism. Bully for them....they saw the "duck". As more and more damning information leaks out about Hassan's activities; communicating with a radical imam in Yemen; openly supporting suicide bombings, attempts to contact Al Queda....the list goes on, even the naysayers have been grudgingly pushed to admit there's something bigger going on here. Except the die hard lunatics like MSNBC's Chris Matthews, who not so surprisingly declared that "it's not a crime to call Al Queda". What? Mister "Tingle in the leg" should have lost his job a long time ago.   Send him to the front in Afghanistan.   But aside from the obligatory eulogies from the White House, the administration has been downright stubborn to come forward with the truth. In fact, we need to take a lesson from the Brits inasmuch as the first probative reports about Hassan the terrorist came from British Journalists. Can you believe that, our own mainstream reporters getting scooped on a domestic issue by the foreign press? I guess you can believe it or you wouldn't be looking at this blog.

Hopefully some real investigations will be launched, but expect White House heel dragging.  In the bitter end a few scapegoats will be selected to make the matter go away.  Then there is Hassan, now out of ICU (getting great health care without the public option).  He will surely enjoy toying with the US legal system as we struggle to bring him to trial for his crimes.  The real crime is that he is not dead and partying with his 72 virgins.  If he gets the death penalty, will the sentence be carried out?  Will CAIR step in and lobby for clemency?  Will Barack let him off the hook?  It should be interesting.

One thing is for certain.  Political correctness is killing us. Refusal to look the enemy in the eye and expose him, confront him and defeat him will lead to ruin. But never fear, Barack will save us, or so the schoolkids sing. But then again Barack wrote in his Audacity of Hope; "I will stand with the Muslims if the political winds shift in an ugly direction".   I guess when "push comes to shove" Barack's got it covered with his Muslim "bros".  But what about the rest of us?.

Kudos to Ralph Peters of the NY Post for a really hard-hitting piece on this topic.