Who Is the Commander in Chief?
So it’s official . . . kind of. Major Hasan is a zealot for “radical Islam,” and people knew it. Doesn’t give you too much faith in the system, does it?
In an earlier post about the Fort Hood incident, I suggested that the question is: How could this happen? Though I suspected it then, it’s obvious now that part of the answer is our faith in political correctness. Yes, PC is an abstract concept, not a person. So having faith in it sounds preposterous. So what I should say is that because of the insidious influence of PC, we have faith in people we never should trust. PC blinds us to the importance of knowing whom we trust.
I did not knowingly trust Maj. Hasan. But I surely did indirectly. More important, the people he gunned down trusted him. That trust has always seemed warranted and invulnerable to suspicion. Not any more.
It isn’t only Maj. Hasan who betrayed our trust. Others in the military knew of his goofiness (a euphemism, considering the consequences of their oversight and inaction). And yet he had freedom to roam the base, work with patients, and walk into a facility and shoot indiscriminately and fatally at innocent “infidels.”
How can we not wonder how compromised our military has become? Is Hasan the tip of an iceberg? How far up the chain of command does his ideology find a home?
It’s lunacy for Americans to prefer abstract and amorphous “change” over substance. This is partly because change is never really amorphous or abstract when it occurs. It’s always concrete, definite. Since it is so definite when it happens, we must be sure we know what sort of change we’re asking for when politicians promise it.
We didn’t know what change was in mind when Obama was a presidential candidate. He made sure of that. And the electorate didn’t care. But why did Obama make sure that no one knew his definite plans? And what are we to make of the radicalism of so many changes he’s already proposed in his first year as president? Do we yet know who this guy really is?
This was a question for the days of campaigning. But it’s pertinent again today. For Obama is our Commander in Chief, the highest ranking member of the American military infrastructure.
I suggest that if our confidence in the military infrastructure is to be restored, we must have unequivocal repudiation of radical Islamic ideology from the top down. It won’t be enough to hear this in the abstract. What is really needed is explicit condemnation of sharia law, followed up with vigorous efforts to track down, expose, and prosecute enemies in the camp.
What are the chances that’s going to happen?
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November 10, 2009 at 10:27 pm
I believe the American people made a serious mistake electing a person who is not a believer of the christian faith. Our nation was founded on christian principles. I believe our Heavenly Father is looking down at us with tears in his eyes. I also believe this country will not be blessed for long unless we change our ways. Wake up American people!! Thank you and God bless.
November 15, 2009 at 4:03 pm
Why only one response to COMMANDER IN CHIEF? It seems to me that just the name ISLAM or SUBJECTION would bring out some debate as radical Islam and peaceful Islam apparently have the same goal, one world under subjection to sharia law.
Remember the cheering in the streets of islamic cities around the world as the towers come down in N.Y.C. 9-11-01?
What is our President’s world view?
November 16, 2009 at 12:07 am
Howard,
Do you mean: ‘Why has there so far been only one response to this post, given the significance of the issue?’
November 16, 2009 at 4:37 am
In short, Yes!