| Kantor said: I may be completely misunderstanding you (I hope I am), but you want to declare war on Afghanistan because a guy shot some people at a military base? |
Yeah, that's pretty far from what he meant. Mafoo is saying that the media is covering this as a crime or an act of terrorism. The problem is that Hasan wasn't suffering from some kind of secondhand post-traumatic stress disorder as some have suggested, nor did he intend to change policy through an act of violence. He proselytized Islam to the soldiers he was supposed to be treating, defended suicide bombings, expressed his desire to cut the necks of non-Muslims, and made a host of other statements, in light of which it's pretty shocking he wasn't discharged from the military. Since Hasan espoused jihad and had been in contact with an al-Qaeda recruiter, there's a strong case to be made that the shootings should be seen as treason rather than the random act of some lone nut.
