Fort Hood: Wise Words From Michael Yon
by Big HollywoodWise, wise words from Michael Yon:
Now is not a time to psychoanalyze the attacker by using a media-supplied telescope that already said he was dead, and that there were multiple attackers. Media: STOP, please. There will be time to pursue answers and justice after Christmas. We must remember that family members lost loved ones just before the holidays. Justice and answers will come with time.
When stories of this kind break, the weatherman becomes the most accurate part of the newscast. We know nothing right now. We know less than nothing because too much of what we’re told is wrong.
All we know is that people are dead and wounded, and families and loved ones are suffering. That’s all that matters right now. The rest is noise.
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I agree!
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I don't know if this is an inappropriate sentiment, but I hope they don't pre-empt Red Eye for a second time this week. I don't know how necessary it is to have a 7th straight hour of "breaking news" coverage at 3:00 in the morning.
It will all come out eventually, but what an incredible tragedy.
Again, America was meant to be a melting pot, not a salad bowl. This major refused to melt.
And Nero just keeps right on a fiddling.
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Michael, you are absolutely correct. But the media will live and breath this for days. Maybe less time than they obsessed over Michael Jackson– but I'm not betting on it.
I was relieved to hear the civilian cop who stopped the shooter did in fact survive. It goes without saying that the families are in my prayers.
I posted this on another column, but I think I'd like to post it here as well. Breitbarts websites can get pretty opinionated, but I agree that this is not the time or place for it. Give the Country and the Families time to grieve.
As a father with two kids in the military, my heart, thoughts, and prayers go out to the victims and their families. God has his own plans and , I pray, this tragedy is serving some greater purpose. Please, everyone hold their judgements and accusations, until the facts are in, and we've had a chance to grieve for the victims. At this time, turning this into a political issue, will just drag the memory of the fallen into the mud.
Veterans Day is coming up, and I would also like to suggest that we take a moment to say thank you, to the Veterans still living, and a thank you and a prayer for the ones who've passed on. I know many Veterans who carry scars from their service either on their bodies or on their minds. Take a minute to think about these citizen heroes, and the sacrifice that they have given for our freedom.
I've been checking in throughout the day to find out what BH would say about today's massacre, and then I read this. If I didn't know better, I'd mistake this post and its praise for something Obama & his sychophants would say. We all know WTF happened and why. We've had eight years of "wise, wise words" like "Islam means peace", and the enemy hits us with the worst attack since 9/11. None of us can come close to feeling what the bereaved are feeling tonight and I won't pretend to. I'm thinking about the next attack and the one after that and what the F it will take for our gov. to crush this enemy once and for all. An enemy that is out to kill us today, tomorrow, ON Christmas, after Christmas, and who will never stop until they're stopped.
I hope Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan enjoys a firing squad. ______Islam, the religion of peace, my ass.
I couldn't disagree more with this post. Of course this is an enemy attack and of course we should mourn the dead but we should BE ANGRY. It's our LACK of anger that will be our downfall. What Michael Yon must not understand is that this Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is a good muslim doing exactly what the Koran has told him to do. And, all the Muslims around the world who commit these same types of atrocities– in Mumbai, in Madrid, in Bali, in London, in New York, in DC, in Chechnya, in Kashmir, in Paris– are GOOD Muslims who believe that killing non-Muslims will earn them a place in Islamic heaven and a place for 70 of their relatives.
The correct reaction ought to be a strong reaction. This endless "swatting at flies" tactic just doesn't work. Defeating them works. Showing our strength works. Refusing to budge works. Learning the truth about Islam will work. And, the truth can be found in the KORAN as long as you find one in chronological order. The site Prophet of Doom has one, omit the spaces and add a dot com.
DL Adams wrote a much better piece about today's event here: http://sioanetwork.com/?p=461
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"The rest is noise." But only to a news organization that is concerned with facts, therefore most of the MSM will continue to blather endlessly in support of their ideology.
May God bless and comfort the families and loved ones of all of the victims of this attack.
May God Bless all families that suffered a very tragic loss today. Eternal rest grant unto them , O Lord.
And may perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen. I salute them all.
Semper fi
Very true, we should not go crazy while nobody knows anything. But perhaps we can start asking questions, such as: did the army meet any diversity goals employing this guy?
First my heart goes out to the families.
Second, how disrespectful of our Commander in Chief to spend 2 minutes high fiving the crowd before he addresses the fallen soldiers we lost today in his address to the nation. In addition he gives a shout out too a Silver Star Medal Recipient and says he is a "Winner" of the medal. No Mr. President you may win a Noble prize but you can never ever "Win" Silver Star. Sorry you do not understand the difference.
We're beginning to see just how broad our CINC's base of ignorance really is. "Winner" indeed!
In my profession, "inappropriate" is one of the most damning appellations one can bestow on someone.
Our CINC is inappropriate too often for my comfort.
May God Bless the fallen soldiers and/or civilians that perished today!!
BTW, I was hoping the same thing alas, RedEye was pre-empted once again. I hate when that happens.
Right On, Kendra!!…….
Heres a site for you..well, a PDF file that you can download (its safe) and read….
It shows plans for domination by the muslim brotherhood for America…….its starts in arabic but ends in English..go down to page 15 and be awed…….
It takes about 30 seconds depending on your pc, but is well worth the read….
I agree with your first paragraph. However, I think it's misguided to think that we can or should "defeat" Muslims all around the world. How about leaving them be and carefully screening the small number we let into the this country – especially those we let into our military.
I too disagree with the great Michael Yon. Its time to get fed up and angry. We've been so mollified over the years.. I'm done being nice about the Islam issue. I'm tired of the race baiters, I'm tired of the reaction of our goverment. I'm done. And I'm angry. Why are we dicking around people? Lets' get the hell out of the middle east, drill in our own country, bring on nuclear power, and scrutinize the muslims who are here with a finetooth comb. They've done nothing, nothing to earn respect.
Maybe because if you 'let the enemy be' they will attack anyway just like on 9/11…look what has happened in the UK…they opened their borders to refugees and now they are overrun with Muslims who are intent on taking over that country! We have a Muslim sympathizer in the White House now…they said they would take us down from within…America better pay attention!!
I pray for the fallen and the families
Death is too good for the assailant,thats the easy way out
My heart goes out to those who lost loved ones yesterday and my wishes for a full recovery go out to the wounded.
That being said. CAIR is calling for calm. Really? Would that be the same kind of calm Salmon Rushdie got when he wrote a book? The man has been living under a death threat for 2 decades. Or would it be the calm that we saw after some Dutch guy drew a freakin' cartoon? Nuns got shot in the back. CAIR can keep it's calm. I got your Fatwa right here bud….religion of peace my .357 Magnum.
Whitehouse / FBI allowing mulsim training camps / faux mosques in the United states…hundreds of camps…tens of thousands of trainees in the Peacefullness of Jihad…embedded. Taxis, gas stations, military muslims, govt lawyer muslims running the Justice Dept with Hillary, embedded around targets…hellooooo!!??
Bottom line…just another surrendaCrat / islamoFascist coming out of the closet…killing americans and the Tea Party HouseCall News from Washington blaming the military: calling me names….
I'd say Obama / Rahm threw the switch to kick the freedom fighters off the news…you elected his kind to the whitehouse and Congress…those who enable terror…like Ma'OBama, Pelosi and Reid…Gitmo for them all. Then get Soros and pay America back all they stole.
Then there are the unproductives that don't work but just stay on welfare forever…they enable this Whitehouse-organized terror…their Sorosian Maoist Coup continues with the complete protection of the Secret Service, FBI, CIA and the Armed Forces. Obama will be promoting Muslims like this shooter in the near future. Chiggers like this muslim shooter will be the generals losing the war on terror…according to Ma'OBama's Plan.
purge the murderers within?…they're muslims…like the one elected to the whitehouse that lied and now wants to Cloward & Piven America. Where's the FBI when you need them? What about all the muzzie training camps and jihadji mosques here…traing terrorists…hellooooooooooo yea they are in the military, too…hellooooooooo…just like surrenaCrats, they attack and destroy patriots and then claim they were victims that just had to kill 13 and destroy over 30 more lives…and families…no, this was a mole…islamofascists within…
You don't know that for sure. The motives are not known.
I laugh every time I hear some dimwit leftist parrot "George W was dumb". Bush had sensitivity, grace and cared about people.
Obama has NONE of those qualities. Obama is a stupidly naive person, blinded and handicapped by his own narcissism.
Some are not waiting until after the Christmas to get to the bottom of this.
From the AP this morning:
'Soldiers who witnessed the shooting rampage at Fort Hood that left 13 people dead reported that the gunman shouted "Allahu Akbar!" before opening fire, the base commander said Friday.'
"Allahu Akbar!" is what jihadists scream before comitting their atrocities.
And from Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch & Front Page Magazine this morning writes that this piece of shit also passed out Koran's the morning of the attack, dressed in full Muslim regalia. And though he was born in Virginia, he listed himself as a "Palestinian" on a form he filled out at the Muslim Community Center in Silver Spring, Maryland.
You are absolutely correct. The idea that we should wait until after Christmas (!) is insane. If a member of my family were killed by what is essentially a homicide bomber I would want justice as swiftly as possible and not wait for the famous very short memory of the American public and the MSM to forget all about it.
I'm with you 100%! I never understood how some of our leaders could say Islam means peace. Anything but!Our "wise" leaders….? When will they wake up………
Hannity live coverage quoted Nidal's friend regarding his refusal to deploy: " he didn't want to kill Muslim's". Couple that with his yelling of Alluha Akbar while shooting and you have a fairly strong case for profiling.
Tis time to resurrect the pig farm from the movie, Snatch, or the corral from Deadwood's Mr. Wu and drag the conscious body of this pig to his just reward. I doubt that the virgins want to see this piece of meat all covered in pig-poo. Good PR too.
Islam needs to start getting treated like Scientology has been; with absolute scorn and a question of its religious legitimacy. People need to infiltrate their mosques and do hidden camera work in their neighborhoods. Soon as me and my wife heard the name of the assailant there was no need for psychobabble explanations. The word “Islamic Terrorism” (even if by one man) covered the whole incident.
You are so right…
Tragically, unless we can make being "American" more valuable than being "[insert ethnic, national, religious, etc. adjective here] American", therefore making assimilation more attractive, I fear America as we knew it will dissapear from the Earth.
I miss it already…
Hmmm I was thinking Hanging would be better.
Or maybe Central Texas style, naked & staked atop a fire ant mound & covered in honey…
If you study the Quran it is a manual for conquest and subjegation or destruction of all lesser people. Jews and Cristians especially…
It is a religion of rest in peace infidel bastard.
I would love to see some demonstrations outside Muslim mosques demanding an explanation of why they breed so many terrorists. Regardless of what the MSM might spin it, Americans better start treating that "religion so-called" as the threat it proves time and again to be against freedom and life. Its time they get treated the way gay marriage supporters treat Mormons and most everyone treats Scientology. America might have freedom of religion, but it also has freedom to speak up and speak out against a suicidal murder cult.
Kendra,
Unfortumately, you are right. I fear all we will get by "turning the other cheek" is our throat slit.
His motives don't matter one bit at this time. And it is my strong conclusion that the only way they will matter at all, is in how they will be telling the powers that be the danger of having our own military infiltrated with jihadists. But I believe that the POTUS ought to demonstrate heart for the families and loved ones who are mourning, and that heart ought to be announcing both a careful investigation to resecure the base AND a swift, certain, and serious adminstration of justice.
While I agree with Michael Yon that the horror and sorrow that these families have endured should be foremost in our thoughts and we don't have all of the facts it's unbearable watching the MSM trying to disconnect Islam from this atrocity. Sorry, but, I refuse to let that potential factor be whitewashed away by the media.
Looking at Hasan’s attire captured on video hours before at a 7/11 he literally wore his religion on his sleeve publically. Considering the guy wasn’t an army chaplain I submit it as exhibit A when considering his motives.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article...
Or golfing, or basketballing, or campaigning for Healthcare/Global Warming/Failed Governors.
Wise words indeed…thank you Mr. Yon.
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Thats interesting because his parents were form Jordan. Did no one see this douche for what he obviously was? What is also interesting is he has a degree in Biochem, but he was made a psychologist for the Army. WTF?!!
And wouldn't you know, the news shows this morning were tossing around the idea that this might have been just a guy snapping under stress. ???!!! Fine, then, I'd be willing to have him sit on one of those stress release balls, and THEN shoot him in the head.
This may be crossing a line, but however we dispatch him, we need to stamp him with the Star of David first, so he can't die a martyr and go to meet Allah and those 72 virgins he's been promised.
Could NOT agree more. I turned off the TV. I do not care why this guy killed. Not a bit. I do not want to see carnage pics or interviews with CAIR.
My thoughts, prayers go to the mourning loved ones and those attending to the wounded. To the recovering, I pray for your speedy recovery.
Lord, hear our prayer.
Amen, sir! For those of us not personally bereaved, our first job and responsibility to the victims is to uncover the truth. Saying we "know nothing" is not accurate or honest, and is frankly less than I have come to expect from BH.
It reminds of how much the left and the truthers foamed at the mouth because Bush didn't hysterically run from the room full of children when he was told about 9/11. He waited 10 minutes. Obama waited nearly an hour, then gave a small plug during an unrelated press conference. Hypocrites.
It makes me angry.
Show him no mercy.
God bless Officer Kim Munley.
As a lifelong conservative Reagan Republican Muslim, I can saddened by the hate and racism seen here. You ask "where's the Muslim outrage" yet refuse to see Muslim outrage. MANY statements were issued condemning this unIslamic act from Muslims in the military as well as civilian groups. Yet some here would have us all deported. That is NOT the American way!! Ronald Reagan would be ashamed.
Michael Yon is suffering a severe case of rectal cranial inversion. Anyone with a half a brain knows exactly why Hasan did what he did. Political Correctness is costing lives.
You can be plenty angry without dissecting this killer's every thought. I do not want to hear from his family about how much he adored America. I do not want to hear from CAIR about how the fact he was a new convert to Islam and how he wrote/said all sorts of terrible things about Americans or Christians… that that should be set aside.
What do I want? I want them to tell us how the survivors are doing. I want them to tell me about who shot this guy and rendered him unable to shoot another innocent person. I want to hear what the potential punishment will be for him shooting to death a pregnant woman.
I am sick to freaking death of people on TV making excuses or concentrating on the inner workings of this psycho.
I want America to wake the heck up. These people who go around telling us how much they hate us and want to crush us under foot – they are not our friends, they are not harmless and they should not be tolerated.
Count me pissed.
The deafening silence of the muslim community in this and other countries has convinced me they either are approving of the atrocities committed in their name, or so cowardly, gutless, beaten down and intimidated they're effectively useless.
Amen to that! All I can say is Thank God for people like Sgt. Kim Munley. That, and if I see one more story along the lines of how this piece of stool was provoked by someone scratching up an Islamic-themed bumper sticker on his car (Yahoo's leading with it right now), I may explode.
He went to medical school after getting his biochemistry degree, then specialized in Psychiatry (not psychology).
The Admissions Committee at USUHS has a lot of soul-searching to do.
and string bacon around his neck, as Gen. Black Jack Pershing did around the turn of the last century.
My first response got ceonsored so I'll try again, very briefly. I don't think this post was wise. I do think anger is not not only a natural but a necessary response to events like this. It's clear to anyone with half a brain why Hasan Nidal whatever did this. Frankly, this post is an insult to our intelligence.
Hasan is an islamic jihadist by his own admission. On a document he declared himself Palestinian by birth despite being American born. he had no allegiance to this country, his allegiance, like obama's, is with our enemies.
A muslim in the Army threw a grenade at some soldiers killing them.
The DC shooter who was a muslim.
Now the mass murderer Hasan is an avowed islamic extremist.
This is why Israel doesn't accept arabs into the military; even Israeli arabs.
Political correctness cost these soldiers their lives. The commanders that were aware of Hasan's jihadist views and did nothing about it should face civil and criminal law suits.
Hasan should be drawn & quartered.
It just occured to me that what is likely behind the praise of Yon's "wise, wise" words is something that Ayn Rand called The Argument from Intimidation. We have been shown what is considered "wise" around here, and therefore anything else is by definition considered unwise. Example: "Anyone who likes that song is a piece of shit. Hey, do you like that song?"
I've been a Big Hollywood contributor for a while now and if I didn't give a damn, if I didn't have respect for the editors and contributors involved, I'd keep my mouth shut and go elsewhere.
Radical Islamists and their sympathisers are determined to destroy Western Democracies and will never assimilate. Thanks to 30 years of suicidal immigration policy (still continuing) our nation is now infested with tens of thousands who wish it harm. Solution begins with completely controlling our borders and all immigration. Then we have to root out every single cancer cell that has infected this great freedom loving nation or there will certainly be more carnage.
He passed out Korans in the morning and while he was shooting innocents he was shouting "Alu akbar". Given those two facts (check out Robert Spencer's site) why is our esteemed mainstream media loathe to tell the American people that this was clearly a radical Islamic motivated attack?
Dear President Obama,
I’m writing regarding the attack on the Fort Hood by Major Hassan. There are approximately 4,000 active duty troops in the US Military that self-select as practicing muslims. You must order that these men and women be subject to complete review of their activities and comments outside and inside their duties in the US Military. If it is found that they have made statements or are making comments online that are sympathetic to muslim radicalism they must be honorably discharged with what ever benefits they have attained. The men and women of the United States military deserve the utmost protection that our intelligence services can provide; if we are unable to keep tabs on this fellow who publicly makes statements against the United States of America while serving in the US military what hope do any of us have?
Finally, you must order that any base that has activities where troops are unarmed because of training or other activities that an armed presence is on hand to retard this from ever happening again. When my grandfather and my father served they were issued side arms to defend against this and other eventualities.
Major Hassan shot a pregnant women; if that isn’t enough for you to do the right thing in this instance I don’t know what is.
Respectfully,
Last night they (the media) were trying to explain away what he did by saying that he was being teased/ ridiculed/ called names and because he was told scary stories. If THAT is the criteria for what makes for a mass killer we should all eye our children as possible killers.
I am SO glad I am not watching TV today. I just knew I could not take it. A few years ago I took an old tv and dropped it from a couple stories. It was very very cathartic. I may have to sacrifice the old sewing room Sanyo.
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This "commander in chief" doesn't care about the troops; he is using them as props in has narrative; he is the first sociopathic president we have ever had.
Shh, quiet, you're being a hateful racist! I.e. You're just making "noise". Until after Christmas (?), you must simply emote and not try to think or inform yourself about the motivations of the attacker.
In this case, BH and the mainstream media are in clear agreement.
He wasn't a psychologist. He was a psychiatrist, which requires an M.D. before specialization in psychiatry.
There are nearly 4,000 Muslims in the U.S. Military, with the Army having the largest percentage.
Maybe tie him down in a mud puddle for awhile and let a big, angry boar hog have his way with him.
WHERE is the muslim outrage?? Where has it BEEN all these years? The muslims of this country had a chance to speak out after 9-11 and remained silent. I haven't heard anything but media cover-up on the latest atrocity.
Ronald Reagan WOULD be ashamed of a military that allowed a dysfunctional officer to remain in the Army.
I agree, regarding him. And for fundamentalist Islam, the kind that reads the Quran and takes it literally, you are right. I do have to say, though, that people go postal for various reasons, and Islam might be just an excuse for bad wiring – though the Quran does offer moral authority for this behavior more than any other book.
The Old testament was atually not much different, except it only told the Jews to take the Promised Land, not the rest of the world, and God was supposed to do most of the killing. The New Testament of course moved away all this violence. In any case there are very few Jews or Christians that find excuse for this stuff in their scriptures.
I know a few Moslems, however, and they are nice people, quiet and unassuming, and not fundamentalist.
One is a female engineer from Iran, and not wearing the hijab. (She left as a child in '79.) I can assure you she does not espouse Islamic rule.
On the other hand I did have an Iranian neighbor one time, in an apartment building, who was a raging dangerous beast and should not have been in my country. Screamed and raged and wanted to kill me for questioning his collection of shopping carts by the elevator.
I repsectfully and fully disagree with any thought of holding off any vigorous investigation or public debate concerning this act of war by one man upon his country. This was a premeditated act nothing more nothing less. This act of war requires that all Americans, especially the card-carrying members of the Left and Right Wings of the Established Party (DEMOPUBLICS or PUBLICDEMOS if you prefer) to focus on the reason for and the response to this act.
Americans, in my opinion need to speak out about this heinous act of war.
If the "single gunman" has any compatriots whom were involved in this act, I submit that we send the correct message to those people.
Rally around Americans, all of us.
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