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Rich means that the vast range of responsible figures, hands tied by a political correctness that he, among others, plays a major role in enforcing, are, in the minds of the “right,” collaborators.
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All these institutions had failed to heed the warning signs raised by Hasan’s behavior and activities because they are blinded by political correctness toward Muslims, too eager to portray criminals as sympathetic victims of social injustice, and too cowardly to call out evil when it strikes 42 innocents in cold blood. His co-conspirators included our military brass, the Defense Department, the F.B.I., the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the Joint Terrorism Task Force and, of course, the liberal media and the Obama administration. So what does Rich mean here, other than suggesting that the “self-proclaimed patriots of the right” are conspiracy theorists? (Unlike the truthers who have come up with the scenario whereby Hasan’s been framed.)
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If there’s any support group here, it’s some of the more radical members of his mosque, like Duane. Indeed, the near-unanimous verdict was that he was a loner. As for “unambiguous,” does Rich mean “unanimous”? I don’t know too many people who thought he acted in concert with anyone. Did not act alone? That’s another matter. “Terrorist,” I think it’s hard to argue against. Nidal Malikan, an American-born psychiatrist of Palestinian parentage who sent e-mail to a radical imam, was a terrorist. Will Rich have the courage to address the problem? Or will he just bash the “right”? It also became a non-battle cry for the self-proclaimed progressives of the left, who far preferred the psychologization of the event - “pre-proxy-post-traumatic stress syndrome” - to any discussion of the problem with Islam. THE dead at Fort Hood had not even been laid to rest when their massacre became yet another political battle cry for the self-proclaimed patriots of the American right. Rich won’t get his feet wet, but he mocks those of us who are soaking from head to toe. Nietzsche once likened serious thinking to diving into an icy river and grasping a stone lying at the bottom. But in the end, I think what a close look at how Rich dealt with problem reveals, is how bereft of serious thinking even the most intelligent and apparently well-read among the self-styled “liberal left” are on the subject of Islam and its extremist manifestations, and to what lengths they will go to belittle people who try to think clearly on the matter. At times, following his logic is like trying to deal with a bucking bronco: easier to watch than to ride.
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The result is long and sometimes circuitous. So when Rich weighed in on the subject, I decided to call up all his links, read the material, and respond. But Rich is a former classmate (Harvard ’71), and I’m on a class listserv where I posted David Brooks’ criticism of the psychological school’s approach to Major Hasan’s killing spree, and several classmates answered. I have yet to fisk Frank Rich, partly because he rarely deals with an issue in which I have some expertise, partly because, like Daniel Pipes, he so thoroughly links his comments to other literature, that I have not had the time or the energy to look them all up.