How do you suggest we handle it? Ignore it? Maybe that way it’ll just go away on its own like a wart? Talk to them? Maybe if we just sit down with them over a cup of tea we can reason with them? There is nothing “YEE HAH” about taking the attitude that it is either us or them. I don’t paint all muslims with a broad brush, and yes it is extremely difficult that the entire media system in most of the Middle Eastern world is controlled by the government, many if not most are extreme to begin with. They are aiding and abetting terrorists sometimes out of fear, other times out of agreement, but I believe they have the wrong story. So despite all of that, we are left with the same problem which is that muslim extremists want Judeo-Christian peoples to either become muslim or die. Yes, Obama and Pelosi included. It is my contention that we do whatever we need to do to protect our belief system, way of life, and liberty. For goodness sake, we have muslim radicals that are US citizens today, right now that wholeheartedly agree and openly congratulate Major Hassan for his killing of innocent people. Freedom of speech is guaranteed and should be honored in the U.S. right up until it crosses the line. Do you think muslim extremists are worried EVER about “offending” anyone in the process of trying to push their agenda. It is the same tired double standard, you can offend all you want unless of course you are a conservative or an American, and we are fools for going along with it. All in the name of political correctness.

Anyway, the point still stands: isn’t it absurd to kill more innocents hunting terrorists than the terrorists do?

It’s a hard thing to answer. It depends on how you handle the response, I suppose. Countries like Israel have recently been hounded on their response to attacks from the Palestinians.

I don’t actually know how many innocents have been killed. I’ve seen many numbers over the years, and they’re almost always from people with an agenda. So I have to take everything with a grain of salt.

Anyway, the point still stands: isn’t it absurd to kill more innocents hunting terrorists than the terrorists do?

Do you think it’s absurd killing many more innocents fighting terrorism than the terrorists do?

The thing with war is that there will always be some civilian death. Do we want any civilian death? Of course not, but it happens. We can feel for their pain, and try to minimize innocent losses, but we can’t always stop it.

From what I read, Hasan’s problem wasn’t with killing innocents. He was in the military since 1988, so surely he knew it could happen. His problem was that we were over in the Middle East. How he came to his views, I’m not sure. I don’t buy the “he was infiltrating us” conspiracy theory that some are espousing. So I’m currently writing an article on another view.

It was domestic terrorism. The same as John Muhammad, Timothy McVeigh, or Scott Roeder. But, until evidence tells us otherwise, this was an attack by an individual, not associated with any group. So, it is both terrorism and an individual.

On Malkin’s arguments, people who uses the term “religion of peace” in the negative context she does usually do not think much of Islam.

@Bengt Larsson

he couldn’t stop thinking of Muslims as people.

You want to clarify that statement a little better?