All the web sites keep going on about this "act of terror", or "act of horrific violence" with the man responsible being portrayed as a "psychopath".

Why is no one calling it an act of war? Here is a man who disagreed with the US, and made a calculated effort to defend his side is the issue in the most effective way.

If we turn the tables, and let's say a mid level officer in the Taliban came to the conclusions he was fighting on the wrong side, and sympathized with the US. He then wondered what he could do to help our war effort, and the conclusion he came to was to attack a Taliban recruitment center, and take out 40 or so future Taliban fighters.

Would we call that a horrific act? The act of a psychopath? A murderer? No, we would call him a hero.

The man who to attacked fort hood is the enemy at a time of war. Nothing more, nothing less. We need to recognize it as such, and factor these kinds of acts as outcomes of fighting a war. Brushing it off as just the act of a crazy man, is to discount the impacts of fighting a long term war, and future posable ramifications of continuing.

We need to be smarter about it then we are.

Can I get a short summary of the story please?

There are so many stories on it, that it's hard to find one that's a good summary. Just google Fort Hood Shooting

Here is a quick synopsis of it:

A US Major entered Fort Hood recruiting center, killed 13, wounding 35 or so others.

He was a muslim who was against the war. he has on several occasions remarked about how we were on the wrong side of what's right in this war. He was about to be sent to the middle east, and decided to make his stand before he went.

He had written on a few blogs about how he does not think suicide bombers are the same as people who are suicidal, as most suicide bombers think that if they can take out members of the opposition who one day might kill there own, they are saving lives in what they do. He equated it to jumping on a grenade to save your fellow comrades.

Oh, ok, thanks for that.

But why should this be called an act of war? I agree that "psychopath" is not accurate, as the man seems sane. I don't mean to trivialize this incident, but all he did was disagree with his government, and made his voice heard in a violent manner, ergo "an act of violence". Should it be called an act of war when you have your view against health care reform heard?

You do err

You think this happens because we fight wars in the middle east. This would happen without fighting a war.

Islam expands through terror. Children are taught that their parents should kill them if they stop being Muslim. Their book tells them to kill non-believers. With ease of travel to western countries some fanatics will always be carrying out the wishes of their religion.

Because he's not a country...

This would NOT of happened if we were not fighting a war. This would not of happened if we fought the war, and just didn't try to send this guy to fight in it.

This happened, because we are at war. To think otherwise, is to ignore the facts.

I don't mean to say we go to war with 'this guy'. I mean we are at war, and what he did, he did because he wants to fight on the side of our enemies. He is a war captive.

Try him, and kill him, please. But recognize what this is. A random act of violence this is not.

Its labeled the way it is because of political correctness within the liberal media, and an unwillingness to accept that there are foreign and domestic threats against most Westen nations which are difficult to deal with.

Consider the implications to certain highly-political news sources if they actually started considering honour-killings as honour-killings and didn't label it as domestic violence, or if they have to label an event like the Fort Hood shootings as an act of terror from radical/fundamentalist Islam rather than the act of a lone-psychopath.

Because an act of war requires an organised entity - a lone man going on a lone killing spree is not an act of war. Whether he be killing taliban or American.

If he was in Taliban employ it would be an act of war, but he's not.


Also @CommunistHater. You have a terrible, disgusting and distorted view of Islam.