PJM Roundup: The Fort Hood Memorial, the President’s Speech
Pajamas Media is covering today's memorial service at Fort Hood and other breaking news on the story.
Streaming video available here. An estimated 15,000 in attendance.
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Asleep On Watch (Taylor Marsh)
Still Willfully Blind (Andrew McCarthy)
Has Obama been convinced that Hasan was a terrorist? (George Stephanopoulos)
Distraught pacifist conscientious objector tormented by horrors of war, as far as you know (Iowahawk)
Sacrificing Americans (Victor Davis Hanson, National Review)
Obama at Ft Hood Memorial: No Mention of Terrorism or Jihad (Phyllis Chesler, Pajamas Media)
Who? (Commentary)
Time Magazine Successfully Notices, Identifies Elephant in the Room (Ace of Spades)
EXCLUSIVE: Radical “May Have Encouraged” Ft. Hood Gunman (WOAI San Antonio)
Michael Goldfarb tweets: Hasan’s cousins in Ramallah excuse & justify: “His actions could have been in self defence.”
Mosque Leaders Part of Fort Hood Healing Process at Memorial Service (ABC News)
Frank Gaffney on Fox News, discussing Fort Hood.
Memo to U.S. Government: Fort Hood Shooter Is A Jihadist (Weekly Standard — links to Hasan on Islam)
Rich Lowry tweets: the speech is eloquent but hollow. he can’t–for various reasons–speak of what really happened @ Ft Hood
“Staff Sergeant Amy Krueger was an athlete in high school, joined the Army shortly after 9/11, and had since returned home to speak to students about her experience. When her mother told her she couldn’t take on Osama bin Laden by herself, Amy replied: Watch me.’” (From Obama’s advance transcript).
And may we add, we feel just a bit less safe with Miss Krueger gone.
“It may be hard to comprehend the twisted logic that led to this tragedy. But this much we do know — no faith justifies these murderous and craven acts; no just and loving God looks upon them with favor. And for what he has done, we know that the killer will be met with justice — in this world, and the next.” (From Obama’s advance transcript)
Allahpundit tweets: Advance transcript of Obama’s remarks at Fort Hood
“That we saw countless examples of our warrior ethos last week is a great source of pride. … They gave their lives for something they loved and believed in.” (From address by General George Casey)
“Among them, they had 19 children, and one of them had a child on the way.” (From address by General Cone)
Going all-in on the PTSD diagnosis — At Army Base, Some Violence Is Too Familiar (NY Times)
The Shrink and the Terrorist (San Francisco Chronicle)
Slideshow of Memorial (Dallas Morning News)
More photos (Los Angeles Times)
GayPatriot tweets: George W. Bush and Laura Bush Secretly Visited Fort Hood Victims… Last Friday
Steven Crowder tweets: Because of Political Correctness… Our soldiers are dead.
Chicago Mayor Daley Blames Fort Hood On America’s Love Of Guns! (Big Government)
Connecting the Dots (The Corner)
The Web Site for the Fort Hood Shooter’s Penpal Is Down (Weekly Standard)
Reframing the Ft. Hood massacre (American Thinker)
Unreal… Obama On Hasan: He May Have ‘Cracked’ From ‘Stress’ (Gateway Pundit)
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Chief Warrant Officer Michael Grant Cahill (Ret.), Cameron, Texas. 62.
Maj. Libardo Eduardo Caraveo, Woodbridge, Virginia. 52.
Army Staff Sgt. Justin DeCrow, Plymouth, Indiana. 32.
Capt. John Gaffaney, San Diego, California. 56.
Spc. Frederick Greene, Mountain City, Tennessee. 29.
Spc. Jason Dean Hunt, Tipton, Oklahoma. 22.
Sgt. Amy Krueger, Kiel, Wisconsin. 29.
Pfc. Aaron Thomas Nemelka, West Jordan, Utah. 19.
Pfc. Michael Pearson, Bolingbrook, Illinois. 22.
Capt. Russell Seager, Racine, Wisconsin. 51.
Pvt. Francheska Velez, Chicago, Illinois. 21.
Lt. Col. Juanita L. Warman, Havre De Grace, Maryland. 55.
Spc. Kham Xiong, St. Paul, Minnesota. 23.
(List via CNN)
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24 Comments
1. ArmyLifer:May those 13 Soldiers and one unborn child rest in peace, the 30+ injured recover to live productive lives, and one Commander in Chief finally get a grip on the enemy we face.
Nov 10, 2009 - 1:15 pm 2. SmartyMarty:“…CIC finally get a grip…” – whenever and where ever this or a similar phrase appears, it provokes an expression of disbelief and astonishment from me since the writer suggests that this TOTUS is performing in some other way than what he wants and is impelled and is directed (the string pullers). He will continue to demonstrate his utter disregard for the American way and I agree with the conclusion of so many as to why we permit this:simply, “we have lost our collective minds>”
Nov 10, 2009 - 1:57 pm 3. deguello:Please! There is nothing that this Jihad-loving,Chavez lickspittle,Castro wannabe,can say that has ANY credibility.Remember that to him, our troopps ARE the terrorists.He’s responsible for the PC neuturing of the FBI and CIA which made the FT Hood attack possible.I hope he chokes on his crocodile tears TRAITOR!
Nov 10, 2009 - 2:13 pm 4. Bohemond:Amen, ArmyLifer.
And may Hassan get a long rope, a short drop, and a quick trip to Hell.
Nov 10, 2009 - 2:19 pm 5. Carol:If I may add to @2 SMARTYMARTY’S comment:
And soon we may well lose our collective lives.
Nov 10, 2009 - 2:43 pm 6. misanthropicus:Obama Suggests It’s Still Possible Hasan May Have Cracked Under Stress
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/11/10/
Nov 10, 2009 - 3:08 pm 7. Sgt. Mom:I am pretty sure he lost the attention and respect (except in the purely technical sense of being the actual C-in-C)when he muddled the Congressional Medal of Honor with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, during his remarks after being informed of this awful event.
Nov 10, 2009 - 3:35 pm 8. Delia:Sigh. I came into the military in the Carter administration, and left it under Clinton. (And spare me the cheap jokes about that!) I know, I know, the military is commanded by civilians. Honestly, everything about those two embodied everything the military dislikes about civilians – and Carter had been a Navy officer.
I can well imagine how the active-duty troops feel now.
May God comfort the families of the murdered/maimed and I hope and pray these soldiers didn’t die in vain and that SOMETHING is done ASAP to better protect our military men and women from the OBVIOUS.
Nov 10, 2009 - 3:41 pm 9. Trainwreck:Why doesn’t Obama say what he REALLY thinks:
“First, let me express my condolences to the 13 soldiers who tragically passed away in a man-caused disaster for which we are still trying to find an answer.
We must find the root causes for this tragedy, for how a great American hero like Hasan can snap and kill 13 comrades. I am now having my best psychiatrists investigate and come up with treatments for second-hand PTSD.
We also have to make sure that diversity does not become a casuality of this tragedy. We need more Muslims in the army to make it more tolerant. Sensitivity to anti-Muslim bigotry is vital to the strength of the army. I am therefore recruiting Muslims and allowing visas for Saudi and Palestinian men to come to this country to join our military. Anyone who objects will be court-martialed for a racial offense.”
Nov 10, 2009 - 3:41 pm 10. Trainwreck:New USA slogan: “DIVERSITAS UBER ALLES”
Nov 10, 2009 - 3:45 pm 11. Paul M Hupf:The President is hopelessly over his head insofar as his ability to perform his duties of office is concerned. His preoccupation is to do what appears to him to be politically correct, i.e not to violate the rule of “political correctness”. “Political correctness” is nothing more than making bland meaningless statements which he hopes will bring him through each critical situation without offending anyone. In this respect he is dreaming. Forceful leadership is demanded to address the threat of Islamic terrorism, not timidity.
Nov 10, 2009 - 4:28 pm 12. Dwight:From the little I heard and saw, it seems that he did a decent job today. Yeah, he was a bit too stiff and detached, but he said a lot of good things, paid tribute to this generation of soldiers, condemned the shooter etc.
Nov 10, 2009 - 4:39 pm 13. clear mind:What’s even scarier is that more will die from political correctness and it will be a TRAINWRECK…. “DIVERSITAS UBER ALLES”
Nov 10, 2009 - 4:47 pm 14. RebeccaH:I say, may the CIC get VOTED OUT in 2012.
Nov 10, 2009 - 4:47 pm 15. XiaoMei:May they all rest in peace and may their loved ones also find peace.
I cannot bring myself to watch any coverage of the President’s speech.
Nov 10, 2009 - 7:50 pm 16. uriel:Dwight, I agree the part of the speech I caught was good. It made me wonder why Obama doesn’t say these types of things more often. Unfortunately, I do not believe he has undergone a transformation of character or a conversion to the concept of American exceptionalism. More likely he found a decent speech writer and managed a credible delivery. I suspect he will be back to apologies and appeasement before too long, which makes me sad. At least he refrained from doing that today or making it too much about himself, at least in what I heard. So while I still believe he is far to narcissistic, self indulgent, willfully ignorant, and smug. At least he is not completely crass and totally insensitive.
Nov 10, 2009 - 8:25 pm 17. Berlet98:Fort Hood was indeed an atrocity on our soil perpetrated by a domestic Islamic terrorist, but let’s not forget what today is: Veterans Day
Once again, we honor today those brave millions who have served and fought for our country over its history. Without them, we would not have a history.
We especially pay tribute to those now fighting in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. May they all come home healthy.
Remember to fly our flag!
I proudly reprint here last year’s two Veterans Day salutes:
It was the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month when the ”War to End All Wars,” “the Great War,” ended in 1918 with the declaration of an armistice.
The fighting was over between the Allies and Germany, the bloodletting was finished, even though the politicians took another seven months to declare an official end to what would become known as World War I with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles: http://www1.va.gov/opa/vetsday/vetdayhistory.asp
Ironically, the punitive and shortsighted nature of that treaty . . .
Nov 10, 2009 - 10:55 pm 18. ArmyLifer:(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1317)
SGT Mom – I came in during the Reagan era and am still serving. I had to stand before my battalion formation and try to say something – anything – to share their disbelief that this could actually happen (again). I almost did it dry-eyed. Smartymarty, I said the “we” as in the nation and military services – not the “we” as envisioned by the POTUS. We live in different spheres of cognizance. My – our America is in pain. His America is, well – perhaps I shouldn’t speculate as to where his America is.
To those of you who have served, are serving, or are contemplating service – I salute and thank you. Continue to show the world that indeed we are exceptional, that we earned our place as sole ’superpower’ over and over again. Don’t let the nay-sayers win. We cannot, we must not and we shall not let them prevail.
Nov 11, 2009 - 4:47 am 19. misanthropicus:Don’t jump stupidly to conclusion — first thing first, let’s give the time to the Justice Department to go to the bottom with the CIA inquiry and have those guily of unspeakable crimes at Gitme, in Iraq and Afghanistan exemplarly punished (public hanging would be a good procedure).
And after that, with our prestige so enhanced, we can extend an apologetic hand (and some help) to all Muslim countries and Muslims in the world, explain them how wrong we were (and still can be), and ask them what we should do to avoid what caused to a marvelous person like mister Hasan snap and chose his, perhaps a bit unusual, way to soothe his anguishes –
To be liked again when having the sinister legacy of Bush and Cheney years behind is not an easy thing – don’t jump stupidly to conclusions and let Barack Obama be Barack Obama -
Nov 11, 2009 - 5:41 am 20. Code Blue:ArmyLifer: Who is going to prevent them from prevailing?
-American soldiers, hamstrung by PC self-punitive rules of engagement who have as much power as San Francisco beat cops.
-Our Dept of Homeland Security, who is more concerned with going to AbuDhabi to mollify Arabs and promise to avert “anti-Muslim backlash”
-Gen’l Casey, who cares more about diversity than dead soldiers.
-The CiC, who is not willing to confront the enemy or even mention its name.
We are like Rome before the fall: the army defending Rome from the barbarians at the gate while the barbarians are in the army, and a decadent civilian population more concerned with bread and circuses. Only this time, the barbarian-apologists are ruling!
Why fight terrorists abroad when terrorists have infiltrated our army and terror-apologists permeate the MSM and the powers-that-be?
America is truly circling the drain.
Nov 11, 2009 - 6:28 am 21. Javelin:Nice to see all the ugly little minds here once again exploiting the tragedy to aim more bigotry and hatred against Obama.
Nov 11, 2009 - 8:09 am 22. Paul -Indiana:#21. Javelin, I think you’re jumping to conclusions.
Nov 11, 2009 - 8:43 am 23. deguello:#22 PAUL,re: JAVELIN: He’s not jumping to conclusions, he’s jumping into the sewer of libtard talking points and condescension,which substitutes for arguments among the mentally disturbed. BTW: “ugly and little ” is what his NAMBLA-provided boytoy calls JAvelin’s “javelin”.
Nov 11, 2009 - 9:47 am 24. myth buster:20. The enemy can take this country, but they can never hold it. Even if our government falls, we shall take up arms and slaughter the invaders. It may cost us a hundred million lives, but they shall never strip us of our freedom.
Nov 11, 2009 - 10:20 am