I try to believe if there was just more factual information in the mainstream news sources, more credibility, maybe there would be some kind of balance, somewhere. A girl’s gotta dream, right?

Good luck with that.

I agree, and I have been heartened by the coverage in the MSM; like you, it was The New York Times where I got the information.

The innuendo is coming from the usual suspects, and I’ve got some relatives spewing it too, doing the e-mail dance of death, the same thing as always. And I say the exact same things I always do, I take Obama out of the equation and present the rational side of the situation, “Now, imagine you’re X, and someone else does Y, how would you react?” “I’d do Z.” “Correct. Now, wouldn’t any reasonable person do the exact same thing?” “Yes, I suppose.”

I try to believe if there was just more factual information in the mainstream news sources, more credibility, maybe there would be some kind of balance, somewhere. A girl’s gotta dream, right?

Which, of course, National Security Advisor James L. Jones dismissed as ‘historical.’

Excellent points.

As for the religious angle, I see no difference between Hasan and Army of God and James Kopp, or the KKK, which are all based in twisted Christian theology.

Or an Air Force general boasting to his troops that America will defeat all the Muslims because “our god is greater than their god”?

@soonergrunt:

If you’re going to send me to war someplace completely unrelated to the actual facts of the situation on a flimsy pretense, can you please send me to the Bahamas or maybe Australia?

Hey, how ‘bout Venezuela? They have oil, and the guy in charge keeps being rude to America, not to mention the old-school Rightwinghers would see it as a stern rebuke to those uppity Kennedy micks!

It was clearly a complaint that Christianity—which he, in Nazi philosophy, clearly considered weak and unworthy of the Reich he would build, which would greatly outstrip religion—was weaker as represented his fantasy German conquering race than other, more warlike religions.

I hope to hell this isn’t DougJ.

Must I point out that “admired the Muslims” and “wishes Germany had been Muslim—or Shinto” do not equal “dreamed of converting Germany to Islam?” Especially when “reawakening Teutonic/Pagan tribal identity” was a pretty consistent theme in Nazi pageantry.

I also read your post in the Afghan post, and you are spot on with all of it.

I voted for Obama, hoping that this would be his approach to all the decisions he had to make. While I don’t always agree with him on some things, the Afghan situation deserves as all the erudition he possesses, and I am validated by his approach.

The visit to Section 60 reinforces my belief that he feels each loss and injury deeply, and I think that’s all anyone can ask.