http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/02/24/ft-hood-attack-publicly-called-terrorism/

Has John McHugh, the Secretary of the Army, said the same thing yet? Have Purple Hearts been awarded yet? It’s well past time.

“The Army psychiatrist charged with killing 13 people at Ft. Hood early last month asked a radical cleric whether killing fellow U.S. soldiers “was a religiously legitimate act or not,” the cleric said in an interview translated by the Washington-based Middle East Media Research Institute.”

“Awlaki expressed hope that Hasan, charged by the military with 13 counts of pre-meditated murder and another 32 counts of attempted murder, would be executed.

“I pray to Allah to receive him in the ranks of the martyrs, since when he did what he did he was expecting to be a martyr,” Awlaki said, according to MEMRI. “If he is executed, good for him.”"

http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/12/23/cleric-hasan-asked-about-killing-soldiers/?test=latestnews

A Fox News poll released Friday finds nearly half of the public — 49 percent — think the shooting is most accurately described as “a killing spree.” Almost as many — 44 percent — say the incident should be called an “act of terrorism.”

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/20/fox-news-poll-mixed-views-calling-ft-hood-shooting-act-terrorism/

“The status would allow military personnel to receive the Purple Heart and civilians to receive the civilian equivalent award, the Secretary of Defense Medal of Freedom.”

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/17/gop-effort-benefits-fort-hood-victims-fuel-political-dispute/

Thanks for the vote of confidence.

That said, reread J’s post and then the first line of mine.
After you swallow and put your coffee cup down.

As for the present topic: “I just hope we find a way to defend against and not allow a similar tragedy to ever happen again. My thoughts and prayers are with the soldiers and families involved.” Well put. I completely agree.

“My apologies do tend to be formal and infrequent.”

Sorry? For what Grandpa? You said nothing wrong. You have the inherent ability to actively sound the BS alarm when required. Your comments here and on Commander Salamander’s site, tell me you know what’s going on in life. That right there is a strength. But for some guys, that rattles them considerably when they are confronted with their own BS that they put out in public. And then they get defensive once they’re called on it. That would include myself as well. I’m in my early 30s now, and I’ve only recently begun to realize that I would do well in life to SHUT UP, stop and listen to my elders occasionally.

What I mean is, that the old guys don’t need to say “I’m sorry” for anything. You’ve clearly earned the right to stand up and rattle your walking stick and speak up when & where you deem necessary. In 30 to 40 years from now, I suspect I’ll be doing the same thing.

As for the present topic, I just hope we find a way to defend against and not allow a similar tragedy to ever happen again. My thoughts and prayers are with the soldiers and families involved.

K.

There is neither a requirement that the act be associated with a terrorist group, nor be foreign in nature. Otherwise, I think we agree that this qualifies as a terrorist act.

I would submit that his anti-American statements, his praising of suicide bombers, association with a radical Imam, his declaration of loyalty to Islam above what was supposed to be his oath to support and defend the Constitution, his declarations that the oppressors will be punished, combined with shooting thirty-some American soldiers and civilians, killing 13, while shouting “Allahu Akbar” does, indeed, make Major Hasan a terrorist.

The absolutely absurd denial that Hasan was an Islamic radical terrorist, or that his radical religious beliefs played no part in his actions is in line with the equally absurd notion of treating terrorism as a law enforcement issue, and trying Khalid Sheik Mohammed in a US courtroom.

After 28 March 1973, as the result of an international terrorist attack against the United States or a foreign
nation friendly to the United States, recognized as such an attack by the Secretary of Army, or jointly by the
Secretaries of the separate armed services concerned if persons from more than one service are wounded in the attack.