Call him a terrorist

In regard to the Fort Hood tragedy, why not call Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan a terrorist?

If you are terrorizing people and killing groups (or threatening to), you are a terrorist. Timothy McVey was just as much a terrorist as Osama bin Laden, and so is Hasan.

Sara Tyner
Kansas City

Comments

[NoMoreMrNiceGuy]

McVeigh was a terrorist by definition.
Hasan is as well.
Actually so are Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi when you really consider the definition of terrorist. The soft, whining lefties with their thin skin always worry about what is PC. Hasan was probably an Obama fan too boot.

[GHMan]

A Terrorist is a person terrorizes because of political purposes. Islamic terrorists terrorize because they don't have a separation of church and state mentality, their Mullah is their leader. Timothy McVeigh bombed the federal building strictly for political purposes. Hence domestic terrorist was used to discribe him.

[Kate]

Did McVeigh yell "Hail Mary" when the bomb went off?

[whispering_to_kc]

"It seems the leftist elite and their toadies in the media are afraid to call him a Muslim Terrorist, because we might offend the Muslims. Stupid response. He is what he is."

It seems the rightist elite and their toadies on FOX were afraid to call McVeigh an Irish Catholic terrorist, because we might offend the Catholics. Stupid response. He is what he is.

[Kate]

I’m not sure what you mean by “giving the Army the benefit of the doubt” but (and not to sound too calloused about this) giving in to pain is a luxury they, and we, can’t afford. There’s a reason that forward motion in the face of obstacles is called “soldiering on” and it’s what we expect of them.

Now they’re saying that Hasan wired money to Pakistan. Someone in the intelligence community hesitated to rein him in. And in war, hesitation costs lives.

Tina, he should be tried for treason.

[TinaMcG]

If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck...yeah, he's a terrorist, and he should be tried as a terrorist.

[ggbridge]

Alright, I was giving the army the benefit of the doubt. Maybe they won't call him a terrorist because that means they had a terrorist right under their noses all these years and are embarrassed about it. Less embarrassing to have a deranged psychopath than a terrorist I guess.

[Kee]

It seems the leftist elite and their toadies in the media are afraid to call him a Muslim Terrorist, because we might offend the Muslims. Stupid response. He is what he is.

[Kate]

I don’t think that looking away or holding anything back because of raw, personal pain is the military way of handling a situation. They tend to respond with overwhelming force.

For all the warning signs he was displaying, Hasan might as well have tattooed a time bomb on his forehead. Someone messed up big time here and lives were lost. We’re at war – this can’t be the first time in the history of warfare that the enemy has tried to infiltrate ranks. The real question is why did we let down our guard?

[ggbridge]

I've noticed an unwillingness, especially from the military, to call Hasan a terrorist. Maybe it's because he was a major in our own army. Maybe it's because the pain caused by the shootings and deaths is so raw and personal people don't want to label it with such a politically charged word. Whatever it is, I respect the military's decision to call it and him whatever they want.

[Jazz-Man]

And your point is? Hes a terrorist (home grown).